Cardiff
Cardiff is a 2.3 MW onshore wind farm in Wales, operated by Ecotricity. The UK government lists it as operational in its register of power stations (DUKES table 5.11, May 2025).
- Onshore
- Wales
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 2.3 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Ecotricity
- Region
- Wales
- Country
- Wales
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- CF3 2EE
- Coordinates
- 51.5067, -3.1042
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 Cardiff compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 2.3 MW station would generate roughly 5.2 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 1,940 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.
Wind farms turn the kinetic energy of the wind into electricity with turbines. Output varies with wind speed. Offshore sites usually see stronger, steadier winds than onshore sites and so generate more per MW of capacity.
All UK wind farms Wind farms in Wales All run by EcotricityNearby generating sites
- Michaelston Solar Farm Β· 4.17 MW solar farm4.5 km
- Severn Power Ltd Β· 850 MW CCGT gas power station11.3 km
- Uskmouth Power Station Β· 363 MW coal-fired power station11.8 km
- Cwrt Henllys Β· 4.99 MW solar farm12.5 km
- Biglis Β· 4.97 MW solar farm13.2 km
- Home Farm Β· 3.06 MW solar farm13.5 km
- Hill Farm Β· 7.69 MW solar farm14.1 km
- Maes Bach Β· 4.56 MW solar farm14.4 km
Also operated by Ecotricity
Ecotricity operates 25 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
- Site name in planning record
- G24 Innovations Turbine
- Developer / operator
- G24 Innovations Limited
- Planning authority
- Cardiff
- Planning reference
- 07/02286/E
- Application submitted
- 26 September 2007
- Permission granted
- 15 January 2008
- Began operating
- 12 July 2011
- Capacity in planning record
- 2.3 MW
- Address
- Wentloog Environmental Centre, WENTLOOG AVENUE, WENTLOOG, South Glamorgan
- REPD reference
- 2804
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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