Power plant · Newport, Wales, United Kingdom
Abertillery - Wind farm
Abertillery - Wind farm is a planned power plant in Newport, Wales, United Kingdom, with 39.6 MW of capacity, operated by RWE Renewables UK Limited.
Facts
Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Newport (coordinates), Wales | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Btw Abertillery And Abersychan, Pontypool, NP26 3TS | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned (planning application submitted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Onshore or offshore | Onshore | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 11 Oct 2024 (reference DNS/3278009, planning authority Welsh Government (NSIP)) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | RWE Renewables UK Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 39.6 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Units | 6 units (6.6 MW per unit) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Wind Onshore | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.5662, -2.8431 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this power plant and its operator.Who owns it up to the parent company, its grid connection and planning status, and an introduction to the operator.
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Abertillery - Wind farm is the 67th-largest of 177 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Wales and the 1,441st-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 39.6 MW is <0.1% of the 300,661 MW of power plants planned, permitted or under construction we hold for the United Kingdom. It is not built yet, so it is ranked among the power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data, apart from the ones running today. Ranks and totals cover the ones that report their capacity.
| Within | Rank | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wales | 67th of 177 | 16,801 MW | 0.24% |
| United Kingdom | 1,441st of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 2,660th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 336 grid connections (4 operating, 35.5 MW), 11 data centers, 6 substations, 2 transmission lines and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magor, Longlands Lane WT grid connection | Grid connection | — | — | 0.8 km |
| Rush Wall WTG grid connection | Grid connection | — | — | 0.9 km |
| Land at North Court Farm grid connection | Grid connection | — | — | 1.2 km |
| Vantage Data Centers - CWL13 | Data center | — | — | 13 km |
| Vantage Data Centers data center, Newport | Data center | — | — | 13 km |
| Centerprise International Newport | Data center | — | — | 14 km |
| Hinkley Point C Connection Project Material Change | Transmission line | — | Planned | 25 km |
| Hinkley Point C Connection | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 26 km |
| University of Bristol Isambard-AI | AI supercomputer | 5,448 H100e | Operating | 27 km |
Operator and place
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- Rampion Wind Farm (Extension), (Rampion 2)1,200 MW · permitted
- Loch Awe - Eredine Wind Farm100 MW · planned
Other power plants in Wales
- Dinorwig1,728 MW
- Gwynt y Mor576 MW
- Ffestiniog360 MW
- Port Talbot Renewable Energy Plant350 MW
- Anglesey Biomass Power Station299 MW
- Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay240 MW
- Pen Y Cymoedd228 MW
- Carnedd Wen Wind Farm150 MW
Data on this page
- DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD). DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
- Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, CC BY 4.0.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- NGED Connected Data portal. NGED Connected Data portal, Terms not verified.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.