RWE, Wales’s largest electrical energy generator, is consulting on proposals to construct a wind farm able to producing energy for twenty-four,500 houses, above the A465 Heads of the Valleys highway.
If accredited, Pen March Wind Farm, to be situated north-west of Rhymney and north-east of Merthyr Tydfil, will include as much as six generators with a capability of round 30 MW and a most tip peak of 180m, contributing to each Welsh and UK Authorities local weather targets.
The pre-application session runs from third November 2022 till fifteenth December 2022 on-line, with in particular person occasions at Dowlais, Rhymney, and Idris Davies Faculty.
Brechfa Forest Wind Farm
RWE can be in discussions with Caerphilly and Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Councils on the potential for shared possession on the challenge, an initiative which is able to help each authorities’ decarbonisation efforts and deal with a key Welsh Authorities coverage that 1 GW of producing capability can be regionally owned by 2030.
A reported 82 per cent of residents within the Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney constituency help onshore wind.*
Jenny Cowley, RWE’s Mission Supervisor main on the event, mentioned:
“Since 2019, we’ve been working exhausting creating the Pen March Wind Farm challenge.
“We’ve carried out assessments on website, held discussions with native stakeholders, carried out an off-the-cuff public session and gathered an enormous quantity of priceless info.
“We consider that this is a wonderful website for a renewable vitality challenge, which is able to assist sort out local weather change, safe vitality provides, and stabilise costs.
“We are actually in search of formal enter once more from members of the general public and statutory consultees, forward of submitting a planning software to the Welsh Authorities.”
In addition to producing clear, inexperienced electrical energy at low price, RWE may even put collectively a package deal of advantages that may immediately profit native individuals, together with a group funding fund. Within the final 10 years RWE in
Wales has contributed over £10 million to native communities throughout Wales by way of its onshore and offshore wind funding.
The draft Environmental Assertion, which may be discovered on the challenge’s web site, www.penmarch.co.uk, and can be obtainable to view on the occasions, goes over the outcomes of all of the assessments and surveys in addition to the
how RWE plan to assemble the wind farm as sensitively as attainable.
RWE will take into account session suggestions and submit its planning purposes early subsequent yr. The examination will happen throughout 2023, with a call from Welsh Authorities anticipated in 2024. If the challenge beneficial properties planning consent, building may happen in 2025, with the positioning being operational in 2026.
