The Alltwalis Wind Farm is a wind farm

Wind farm

A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electric power. A large wind farm may consist of several hundred individual wind turbines, and cover an extended area of hundreds of square miles, but the land between the turbines may be used for agricultural or other...

 near Brechfa Forest

Brechfa Forest

The Brechfa Forest is an area of forest in Carmarthenshire, south Wales.Much of the planting took place during the 1930s, with work carried out by young unemployed men from a Ministry of Labour work camp...

 located to the north of the town of Carmarthen

Carmarthen

Carmarthen is a community in, and the county town of, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is sited on the River Towy north of its mouth at Carmarthen Bay. In 2001, the population was 14,648....

 in Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

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The facility is composed of 10 wind turbines that will have a combined installed capacity of 23 megawatts. The expected annual production of electricity is around 65 gigawatt hours (GWh) - enough to supply approximately 16,000 UK households with electricity. The farm was built by Statkraft

Statkraft

Statkraft is a Norwegian state owned electricity company. With a total energy production of 44.9 TWh in 2007, the Statkraft Group is the third largest energy producer in the Nordic region, as well as the largest energy producer based on renewable energy sources in Europe,consisting of 40% of the...

. Construction began in November 2008, and was completed in December 2009.

External links

• Alltwalis Wind Farm website