Mynydd y Betws

15 turbines · operational · Dyfed

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionDyfed
Turbines15
Installed capacity34.5 MW
Turbine capacity2.3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)ESB (Cambrian Renewable Energy Ltd / Betws Common Holdings Ltd)
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Project timeline Permission expired June 2000 Application submitted June 2005 Permission granted June 2007 Under construction January 2012 Operational April 2013

From application to operation, this scheme took about 8 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4061.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 24 months. Construction to first power took about 15 months. A planning permission on this site expired in June 2000. The scheme has been operating for about 13 years. That works out at 2.3 MW per turbine on average.

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