Maerdy

8 turbines · operational · Mid Glamorgan

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionMid Glamorgan
Turbines8
Installed capacity24 MW
Turbine capacity3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Greencoat UK Wind
Turbine manufacturerSiemens Gamesa
Turbine modelSWT-3.0-101

♻️ Project timeline

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

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Original scheme Application submitted September 2006 Permission granted February 2008 Permission expired February 2012 Under construction July 2012 Operational August 2013 Later scheme Application submitted May 2014 Permission granted December 2014 Permission expired February 2015

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

The register links a second scheme on this site (REPD ref 3643, Abandoned): 1 turbines · 3 MW each · applicant Greencoat UK Wind. Two schemes on one site usually mean a repowering or an extension — to be confirmed with the operator.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4138.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 17 months. Construction to first power took about 13 months. A planning permission on this site expired in February 2012. The scheme has been operating for about 13 years. That works out at 3 MW per turbine on average.

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