Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill is a 10.1 MW solar farm in Wales, operated by Greencoat Capital. The UK government lists it as operational in its register of power stations (DUKES table 5.11, May 2025).
- PV
- Wales
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 10.1 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Solar Β· PV
- Operator
- Greencoat Capital
- Region
- Wales
- Country
- Wales
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- SA71 5HY
- Coordinates
- 51.6423, -4.9484
Location
Map position from the published coordinates. For small sites this can be an approximate point rather than the exact boundary. Map Β© OpenStreetMap contributors.
How Chapel Hill compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 10% of the maximum possible output), a 10.1 MW station would generate roughly 8.8 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 3,270 homes at 2,700 kWh each. This is an illustrative estimate, not the station's metered output: real generation varies with weather, availability and grid constraints.
Solar photovoltaic (PV) sites generate electricity from sunlight. Panels produce direct current, which inverters convert to alternating current for the grid. Output follows daylight and the seasons, so annual generation is a small fraction of the maximum possible.
All UK solar farms Solar farms in Wales All run by Greencoat CapitalNearby generating sites
- Pembroke Β· 2,199 MW gas-fired power station3.6 km
- Little Neath Β· 6.14 MW solar farm5.6 km
- Hoplass Β· 10.3 MW solar farm5.8 km
- West Farm Β· 7.63 MW solar farm7.1 km
- Wear Point Wind Farm Β· 8.2 MW onshore wind farm7.4 km
- Dragon LNG Β· 9.97 MW solar farm7.8 km
- Castle Pill Farm 1 - A, C Β· 3.15 MW onshore wind farm10.0 km
- Jordanston Solar Farm Β· 4.63 MW solar farm11.1 km
Also operated by Greencoat Capital
Greencoat Capital operates 195 sites in the register. Largest first:
Planning history
From the government's Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), matched to this site by location, capacity and name.
- Planning status
- Operational
- Developer / operator
- Wessex Solar Energy
- Planning authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Planning reference
- 14/0148/PA
- Application submitted
- 14 May 2014
- Permission granted
- 29 July 2014
- Construction started
- 1 January 2015
- Began operating
- 27 March 2015
- Capacity in planning record
- 8 MW
- Address
- Land east of Chapel Hill, Orielton, Pembroke, Dyfed, Dyfed, SA71 5HY
- REPD reference
- 2326
Source
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES), table 5.11: power stations in the United Kingdom β operational at end of May 2025.
Capacity is installed capacity as published, not current output. Status reflects the source date, not live operation.
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Last checked by Octary: 15 July 2026
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