Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Hirfynydd
Appeal Refused18 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 5 October 2015
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 18 MW
- Status
- Appeal Refused
- Operator or applicant
- Wind Ventures (Acciona Energy)
- Location
- Farmland to the East of Crynant and Seven Sisters adjoining forestry at Hirfynydd, West Glamorgan, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Planning application
- P2008/0024
- Appeal reference
- APP/Y6930/A/13/2209942
- Turbines
- 9
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Timeline
- 17 January 2008 Planning application submitted
- 12 November 2013 Planning permission refused
- 20 January 2014 Appeal lodged
- 4 September 2015 Appeal refused
Incidents on the register at this site
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Incidents at onshore wind farms in the United Kingdom
The register holds 54 incidents at onshore wind farms in the United Kingdom, 22 of them fires, and 297 worldwide. Counts of incidents in published reporting, not rates.
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