🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Penrhys Wind Farm/Ferndale Power Factory
Mid Glamorgan

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 8 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

8
turbines
6.4 MW
MW total
0.8 MW
per turbine

📍 8 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 51.65729 N · 3.4629 W.

Penrhys Wind Farm/Ferndale Power Factory

8 turbines · operational · Mid Glamorgan

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionMid Glamorgan
Turbines8
Installed capacity6.4 MW
Turbine capacity0.8 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)John Laing Environmental Assets Group
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded
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♻️ Project timeline

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

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  1. 1Feb 2003 — Application submitted
  2. 2Jan 2004 — Refused
  3. 3Mar 2005 — Permission granted
  4. 4Mar 2005 — Granted on appeal
  5. 5Apr 2010 — Under construction
  6. 6Jun 2011 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Mar 2016, after construction had started: an administrative date with no effect on the wind farm, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

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 3660.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 25 months. Construction to first power took about 14 months. The register records a refusal in January 2004 before the scheme progressed. Permission was ultimately granted on appeal in March 2005. A planning permission on this site expired in March 2016. The scheme has been operating for about 15 years. That works out at 0.8 MW per turbine on average.

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Sources and dates

DataSourceExtract
Site, capacity, status, planning milestonesRenewable Energy Planning Database (DESNZ, Open Government Licence v3)Q2 2026, published 03/08/2026
Turbine positionsOpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)19/08/2026
Manufacturer and modelOpenStreetMap tags, unverified — REPD does not record turbine models. Known for 41 % of UK turbines (manufacturer) and 32 % (model); some values are propagated within a site and may be wrong.19/08/2026

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