Llynfi Renewable Energy Park, Land at Mynydd Caerau

12 turbines · operational · Neath Port Talbot

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionNeath Port Talbot
Turbines12
Installed capacity24 MW
Turbine capacity2 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)John Laing Environmental Assets Group
Turbine manufacturerSiemens Gamesa
Turbine modelSWT-3.0

♻️ Project timeline

Dated milestones from the UK Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Q2 2026 — not estimates.

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Project timeline Permission expired August 2010 Application submitted November 2010 Refused April 2012 Permission granted August 2013 Granted on appeal August 2013 Under construction May 2016 Operational September 2017

From application to operation, this scheme took about 7 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4656.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 33 months. Construction to first power took about 16 months. The register records a refusal in April 2012 before the scheme progressed. Permission was ultimately granted on appeal in August 2013. A planning permission on this site expired in August 2010. The scheme has been operating for about 9 years. That works out at 2 MW per turbine on average.