Pen y Cymoedd

Pen y Cymoedd ("Head of the Valleys") is a £365m wind farm development currently under construction, located between Neath and Aberdare in south Wales.

The company has signed a lease agreement with Vattenfall of Sweden, and its UK subsidiary Vattenfall United Kingdom (formerly Nuon Renewables), to develop what would be the United Kingdom's highest altitude wind farm, on a site owned by the Forestry Commission Wales,.[1] The project would see the installation of 76 turbines that are planned to operate for 25 years, and to generate up to 256 MW, an amount enough to power up to 206,000 homes. The turbine manufacturer is Siemens Wind Power.

During the planning process, Nuon agreed to contribute about £1.85m annually to a community fund and to invest £3m in a habitat restoration scheme, and the following parties contributed to the debate:[2]

The project gained final planning permission in May 2012, the wind farm is expected to be at full operational capacity by 2016.[3]

The first 3.0MW Siemens 101m turbine was fully completed on April 8.[4]

The 76 wind turbines at Pen y Cymoedd will all be active by December 2016.

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