Our early plans for this site seek to deliver an Energy Park which will provide approximately 368MW of clean, green energy using the latest wind turbine technology – enough to power up to 253,700 homes based on industry standards*.

The proposed development includes 55 wind turbines with an assumed blade tip height of 220m, turbine foundations, crane hardstanding and laydown/storage areas.

There will also be access tracks other associated infrastructure including a substation, control building, wind measurement equipment and temporary construction and storage compounds. The turbines will each come accompanied with either external or internal transformers, turbine foundations, crane hardstanding and laydown/storage areas. Habitat management areas will also be integrated into the proposal and further details of these will become available as the project progresses.

* Based on Average UK household consumption taken from UK Wind Energy Database (UKWED) | RenewableUK.

This site has been identified as having excellent exposure to wind resources and site access availability. We’ve undertaken extensive site and desk-based technical studies as well as environmental feasibility assessments to help us demonstrate that the site is optimal for renewable energy generation.

We are still at an early stage of the project, and we will continue to engage with the communities as we refine the designs. We are currently aiming to submit the planning application to Planning and Environment Decisions Wales (PEDW) in late 2027.

As the proposed Energy Park is expected to have an installed generating capacity of over 50MW, it falls within the new Infrastructure Consent (IC) regime.

IC applications are submitted to Welsh Government Ministers to decide via Planning and Environment Decisions Wales (PEDW). Local stakeholders and residents are able to provide their views at multiple stages of the planning process, including at non-statutory, pre-application and determination phases. The submission date for the IC application is expected in late 2027.

Ceredigion County Council and Carmarthenshire County Council are key statutory consultees and will prepare a Local Impact Report for PEDW on the application.

We will carry out noise monitoring in line with best practice, relevant legislation and in consultation with Ceredigion County Council and Carmarthenshire County Council. This ensures that noise limits are set to protect local residents and safeguard residential amenity. Any planning permission granted will include strict noise limits, and we are committed to not exceeding them.

Temporary noise during construction will be managed through a Construction Environmental Management Plan and mitigated as much as possible through controlled measures. These include established work hours, noise management programmes, and delivery timings.

We will be conducting extensive archaeological and historic background assessments of the site and the surrounding area. The findings of these assessments will help us to design the project to avoid direct physical impact on heritage assets.

Further detailed information, including the surveys and technical assessments referred to above, about how we have considered and sought to protect the heritage of the area will be available during our statutory consultation.

As part of our proposals for the Lan Fawr Energy Park, we’re committed  to not only protect but also enhance habitats for local wildlife across the site.

The project will deliver a net benefit for biodiversity over its lifetime, including creating and restoring habitats. These enhancements, brought under appropriate management for the duration of the plan (45 years), will also benefit wildlife across the site by increasing the quality, quantity, diversity and connectivity of habitats from what is currently present.

To support our planning application to PEDW we will be carrying out a comprehensive series of ecological surveys and detailed independent analysis over an extended period, which covers both flora and fauna at the site.  These assessments and studies are fundamental to inform the development of the design of the project to ensure that we comply with both local and national planning policy surrounding biodiversity.

Learn more about our approach to biodiversity.

In mid Wales, the existing electricity network does not have the capacity to connect all the planned new clean green energy to homes and businesses – to end the use of fossil fuels we need new infrastructure and quickly.

To that end, Green GEN Cymru has proposed the Towy Teifi grid line.

Green GEN Towy Teifi is subject to a separate planning application and more details can be found at https://greengentowyteifi.com/en/.

Green GEN recently completed the phase two consultation on Towy Teifi and the full suite of documents remain accessible at https://greengentowyteifi.com/en/documents/.

Bryn Rhudd and Lan Fawr are being brought together as one project because the development timescales for both sites have now aligned. This means we can use a single, consistent set of survey information across the whole area, making the process clearer and easier to follow. 

It also reflects what we heard in earlier consultations, where local people and stakeholders already saw the two sites as a single project. 

The total number of turbines will stay the same. No turbines are being added or removed because of this merger. 

The layout and development boundary won’t change from bringing the energy parks together. However, some details may still change as we continue to develop the plans. 

Bringing the two energy parks together doesn’t make it easier to get approval. The plans will still be assessed in the same thorough way, following the process set out by Planning and Environment Decisions Wales (PEDW). The final decision will continue to be based on the strength of the environmental studies, the evidence provided, and the feedback gathered from consultations, not on whether the sites are being considered together. 

Bringing the energy parks together simply reflects that they are now on the same timeline, and that local people and stakeholders already saw them as one energy park.  It also makes the assessments and community engagement clearer, more consistent and easier to understand.  

They started as two separate energy parks because each site was working to its own timeline, with different surveys and assessments happening at different times. Even though they are in the same area, they were moving forward independently. As the work progressed and the timelines matched up, it became clear that bringing them together would make the process clearer, easier to manage and easier for the public to follow.   

No, bringing together the energy parks doesn’t change the overall timelines for delivery. The work required, the planning process, and the statutory consultation stages all remain the same. 

 What this does allow us to do is coordinate assessments and engagement with the public more efficiently.  We can also use a single set of data for a joined-up approach. 

Bringing the energy parks together wouldn’t change how the landscape could be affected.  The plans we’re working on include the same number of turbines in the same locations, whether the sites are looked at separately or as one energy park. 

Combining the energy parks may also offer an opportunity to reduce aviation lighting

Merging the energy parks will not change how cumulative impacts are assessed. The assessment will be done in the same way as before, using the same approach that has been agreed with the local planning authorities and Planning and Environment Decision Wales (PEDW).  

All the information that has been collected about plants, animals, and natural habitats at both sites will be brought together and considered in one overall assessment. 

This is something that will be carefully looked at as the plans are developed. We will use detailed studies to understand how the turbines could affect nearby homes, including how they might look and how much noise they could create. There are clear limits we must meet to protect people living nearby, and these will be considered when deciding whether any turbine locations need to change. 

The merger will not change the noise levels predicted from this energy park, because noise is already being assessed as the total noise from both parks together. The noise limits stay the same whether the parks are assessed separately or together. Bringing the two parks together as one, single park means we don’t need to split the noise limits between the two sites, which makes the assessment more straightforward. 

The overall construction traffic is unlikely to change. The same materials and equipment will still need to be delivered. However, moving ahead as one energy park means construction traffic can be planned and coordinated more efficiently, which could help manage deliveries better and reduce disruption where possible; for example, delivery and traffic disruption would happen once, rather than twice. 

The access route is still expected to be from the port of Swansea, leaving the public highway at the A482, as was shared with the public during the non-statutory consultation (this was the informal consultation we held in November 2025). 

We estimate it will take 2.5 to 3 years. 

Over the coming months, we will be conducting surveys on the site to help shape the layout design of the energy park. Our community investment team will continue to meet with local organisations to better understand how we can support people in the area – especially with organisations which the local community told us are important to them during our initial consultation back in 2025.  

We’ll then be holding a second, formal public consultation (often referred to as a statutory consultation) in Summer 2027, where we’ll share the full details of our plans for the merged energy park and invite feedback from the local community and stakeholders. We’re committed to ongoing engagement with the community and will continue to provide updates as more information becomes available. Learn more about how we engage with the public both within and beyond consultations. 

We held non‑statutory consultations for both Lan Fawr and Bryn Rhudd energy parks in late 2025, where members of the public could comment on either of the parks during the informal engagement opportunity. When we reviewed the feedback from these consultations, it was clear that the community and stakeholders saw the two sites as a single energy park. As a result, all comments from the non-statutory consultation remain relevant and will be considered as the plans for the energy park progress.