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Gurnos Ystalyfera Seven Sisters Solar power stations Cynheidre Smaller solar panel in the Swansea area Kidwelly 49 setups on Gower Area Mawr Pentre- NAME THEORETICAL OUTPUT 1 Great Pitton Farm 42 panels ground mounted Crynant clwydau 1 Cefn Bethingau 9 MW Trimsaran Pontardawe 2 The Allt-wenGranary Pitton 28 panels ground mounted Pontarddulais 2 Cefn Bethingau (2) 7 MW 48 3 ScurlageRhos Farm a shed with 104 panels 3 Abergelli Farm 10 MW 6 Pembrey Llangennech 12 4 Highfields Poultry Farm 210 panels ground mounted 4 Brynwhillac 12.7 MW 5 3 Bryn 1 Clydach Grovesend 2 5 Pen-y-Graig Farm 40 panels ground mounted 5 Gelliwern Isaf 6 MW Burry Port 11 4 7 6 Cadiz Hall 40 panels. No planning! Ground mounted 6 Gwernlals Uchaf 4 MW Refused at Appeal Llanelli 47 45 Bryncoch Gorseinon 46 Aberdulais Penllergaer 7 7 Pencefnarde Uchaf 3.6 MW Refused at Appeal Morriston BirchgroveMargam Farm 186 panels - never fitted Barn Roof 9 Tonna 44 8 Websfield Ilston 1 MW Refused at Appeal LOUGHOR 8 Llansamlet 8 CKs Store Penclawdd 200 on roof. No planning Fforestfach NEATH ESTUARY permission was originally applied for. 9 Victoria Road 0.75 MW Penclawdd Gowerton 43 Llandarcy 10 Landore Bonymaen 9 10 National Trust 24 panels (withdrawn/refused) Cockett Valley 4 MW 5 Waunarlwydd 13 Pontrhydyfen Duffryn 15 Pentre-chwyth ground mountedBriton 11 Llanmorlais Ferry Llettr Morfil Farm (upheld) 4.9 MW Llanmadoc Pant-y-sais 42 Three Dunvant Fen Crosses Uplands 10 Kittle Egg ‘Factory’ 0.25 MW (1000 panels) 12 14 Castell Ddu Farm 5 MW Cheriton Cwmavon Sketty Baglan Llanrhidian 1 Upper Killay 13 Carn Nicholas Farm 5 MW Killay 6 Oldwalls B427 8 Total number of panels actually installed, about 900. Llangennith 10 Swansea Bay 14 ‘A’ Shed Swansea Docks 0.77 MW King Arthur's In addition there are a large number of small domestic Stone 4 18 Rhossili Downs Blackpill roof mounted installations41 that do not require planning 15 Killan Fach Farm Dunvant 1 MW A41 Norton 9 Parkmill 40 Llanddewi Reynoldston West Cross permission.Port Talbot Nicholaston Note the actual yearly output is about 12% of theoretical. WORMS 2 Knelston 3 Mumbles HEAD Pennard 1 Bishopston Newton The map shows the location of smaller non domestic The map shows the location of the larger industrial Rhossili 7 Penrice 39 Scurlage Southgate Caswell Limeslade solar installations that the Society has not objected to solar factories and their planning status in 2019. Margam Langland Rotherslade because they were well hidden. In Rhyd-y-Pandy there are 167,000 panels already Horton Oxwich 38 installed on agricultural land. Solar panels only produce Approximate position of a Solar Power Station Port 12% of the installed average theoretical capacity. Eynon either applied for or approved by the CCS.
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The only large wind turbine complex within the Lordship of Gower followed a 20 year battle by local farmers and conservationists to prevent it happening. 16 giant turbines Black framed and darker panels are far less conspicuous on have been erected on Mynydd-y-Gwair, on a previous roofs. All panels should be of this type in our opinion. expanse of unspoilt upland moorland. With the access roads over 15 km in length, along with the turbines themselves, the whole character of the area has been changed. Upland sheep farming will never be the same again. The site will generate a maximum of 48 MW of electricity in ideal wind conditions but an average of only 25% of this through its life. On the plus side, a sum of approximately £250,000 per year will be This is a typically large solar panel installation near Cross injected by the developers into the local community for the Hands that can be seen from upland Gower at Mynydd-y- next 25 years by way of grants administered by the Swansea Gwair. Council for Voluntary Service.
This similar installation that has the bright frames is much more visible.
Kittle Egg ‘Factory’ 250 KW (1000 panels). There are many large industrial sheds that could accommodate solar panels A typical domestic roof installation that detracts from the without further damaging the landscape and ruining architecture of the original roof as well as having the bright agricultural land. aluminium framed panels.
A very large urban installation with bright frames on a commercial roof that is acceptable as long as the correct planning process is followed and would have looked better with dark frames. This small commercial site is well hidden in the AONB and is not objected to.
A recent application for a 0.77MW roof mounted solar array The ground mounted panels are claimed to allow grass to be This proposed 1 MW ground mounted solar panel installation was approved by the City and County of Swansea. It will be grazed by sheep but these at Rhyd-y-Pandy have long grass at Webbsfield Ilston was opposed by residents and The fixed on existing warehouse roofs in Swansea Docks and the growing between them. This is a small section of 167,000 Gower Society. It was refused at a Planning Appeal because Gower Society supports such installations that will not effect panels already installed in this area with many more now of the potential impact upon the landscape. This was the first the landscape. There are hundreds of such industrial roofs approved. of its type to be applied for within the AONB within Swansea that could be adapted for solar panels.
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