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Mid Wales site talks for power plant
Wednesday 9th March 2011, 12:55PM GMT.
Two potential sites in Mid Wales have been earmarked for a power station which will link windfarms to the National Grid, it has been revealed today.
Public consultation on the plans will begin later this month with the power station being built in either Abermule, near Montgomery, or Cefn Coch, near Llanfair Caereinion.
The National Grid has said the electricity infrastructure needs upgrading in Powys to cope with the number of new windfarms being built in the area.
A total of 48 public exhibitions will be staged between March 23 and May 6 in a bid to find out people’s views — with work on the power station expected to be completed by 2015.
The 19-acre power station will collect energy from the windfarms and a new 400,000 volt cable will deliver the power from the station into the national system.
The cable could take the form of overhead power lines, underground cables or a combination of the two.
The National Grid is currently carrying out a study to find a potential route for the cable.
Meanwhile, ScottishPower will start consulting with local communities tomorrow about plans to build three new feeder power lines and an, as yet, unknown number of pylons, about 26m (85ft) high, which will connect 10 planned wind farms in Powys to the power station.
ScottishPower said the location of the power station would determine where it would place the pylons.
Concerns have been raised about the number of planned pylons with the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales claiming hundreds could be put up.
But the National Grid has argued that the current network for transferring power is limited in Mid Wales, and with a new generation of more powerful wind turbines producing more electricity the infrastructure requires upgrading.
Peter Bryant, National Grid project manager, said: “Electricity is an essential part of our lives and in the coming years the UK faces a major energy challenge.”
He said: “We appreciate this is a significant development and we are committed to listening to the views of local people before we make any decisions about the location of the substation.”
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This “power station” wouldn’t be a small control centre with step-up transformerss to raise the windfarms’ output to a voltage suitable for feeding into the grid?
It certainly won’t need the bl**dy great cooling towers you show in your photo.
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Do you mind??! We are trying to instigate panic here! PANIIIC
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Quite right Rob – I only used that one because I was searching for a reasonable picture I could use to illustrate it and that was the closest I could find.
Have now hidden the pic from the story. Cheers.
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stop complaining if you are online YOU ARE THE PROBLEM go live in the dark you luddite hippys who oppose this
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I agree with Rob, before we panic we should know more about the magnitude of the building, I wouldnt mind a shed in a field at Cefn Coch but at 19 acres it looks as though it`s going to be a bit bigger than that.
A recent TV programme bewailed the fact that so many people miss the beauty of Mid wales on their headlong rush to the coast and this is true but it wont hold even as much attraction as now if they slap a power station in the middle. I dont like the sound of 85 foot pylons either and hope the Welsh Assembly bangs this on the head asap.In addition , has anyone told them that there are no proper roads aroud Cefn Coch ?
Seems to me that these are the same Philistines who are turning the beautiful region to the East of the Wrekin into a massive opencast hole.
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A shed in a field or a sub station is the least of the concerns. The most jaw dropping blight on the locality northward from the substation will be the 400kv lines
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It is most likely that this will not be at cefn coch but at Abermule, a more logical choice the purple south route is both shorter more direct and is over less populated areas with fewer directional shifts. It is also more compliant to the Holford rules and will cause much less upset to the folk of lanfair, welshpool ardleen four crosses llanymynech kinnerley etc. But then logic may not necessarily apply, since it will be those that bleat the loudest who avoid the one of ten route choices for the giant 400,000 volt overhead system. I honestly don’t believe folk have a clue as to what is potentially coming.
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Deleted. Oh well lets try a different tack.
the main point of concern here for most people will actually be the siting of the 400,000 volt feeder connection from either cefn coch or Abermule since it affects the largest number of people, and is therefore of greater significance. The Abermule substation and purple route south to the eastern side of long mountain would be the most logical according to the halford rules(national grids siting rules) since it is the most direct shortest and affects fewest people.
Ps Why was my initial post removed ????
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