Site Map |  Cymraeg   11 - 18 years > What can we do to reduce climate change? > Renewable energy in Wales > What are windfarms? > Planning for windfarms in Wales PLANNING FOR WINDFARMS IN WALES Strategy for Renewable Energy, Welsh Assembly Government 2005 Target: provide 10% more electricity from renewable energy sources  by 2010 Policy build approx. 400 wind turbines in the 7 areas identified on the map below. Future wind farm locations in Wales Click on names for locations Try This! What do you think of the 2005 Renewable Energy Strategy for Wales? Opinions on the 2005 strategy adapted from Western Mail 13 July 2005 Friends of the Earth, Cymru ‘Although Friends of the Earth, Cymru is taking a leading role in supporting other renewable energy systems, such as solar power, energy crops, tidal lagoons and wave power, we recognize these cannot yet deliver the amounts of clean energy required to address climate change’ Leader of the Opposition, Welsh Assembly Government, Nick Bourne We will be supporting the fights against individual wind farms across Wales. Other avenues need to be looked at – tidal, wave, solar, HEP – instead of these unsightly things which are not proven to be efficient or reliable in the amount of energy they produce. The [Welsh] Government seem to have a bee in their bonnet when it comes to wind farms’ Brechfa Forest Energy Action Group This is the death knell for the Welsh uplands. We want to get tourists and in Brechfa Forest money has just been invested in mountain biking tracks. But that’s no good if you look up and see something bigger than the Statue of Liberty’

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Location of Welsh windfarms Opinions on windfarms in Wales Case study : Gelligaer wind farm