Rheidol
Rheidol is a 2.4 MW onshore wind farm in Wales, operated by Venitent Energy Services. 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
- 2.4 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Venitent Energy Services
- Region
- Wales
- Country
- Wales
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- SY233N
- Coordinates
- 52.4076, -3.8772
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 Rheidol compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 2.4 MW station would generate roughly 5.5 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 2,020 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 Venitent Energy ServicesNearby generating sites
- Rheidol Hydro Scheme Gen 4 Β· 1.25 MW small hydro scheme2.1 km
- Rheidol Hydro Scheme Gen 7 Β· 0.1 MW small hydro scheme2.1 km
- Rheidol Hydro Scheme Gen 1 Β· 13.5 MW hydroelectric station2.3 km
- Rheidol Hydro Scheme Gen 3 Β· 20.5 MW hydroelectric station3.7 km
- Rheidol Hydro Scheme Gen 2 Β· 20.5 MW hydroelectric station3.7 km
- Rheidol Hydro Scheme Gen 6 Β· 0.05 MW small hydro scheme3.7 km
- Rheidol Hydro Scheme Gen 5 Β· 0.08 MW small hydro scheme4.3 km
- Cambrian Β· 58.5 MW onshore wind farm8.6 km
Also operated by Venitent Energy Services
Venitent Energy Services operates 33 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
- Rheidol Wind Farm
- Developer / operator
- Powergen
- Planning authority
- Ceredigion
- Application submitted
- 1 August 1991
- Permission granted
- 6 August 1996
- Began operating
- 6 February 1997
- Capacity in planning record
- 2.4 MW
- Address
- Rheidol Wind Farm , Banc Bwa Drain , Goginan , Aberystwyth, Dyfed, SW23 3PQ
- REPD reference
- 3552
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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