Pen y Cymoedd Battery
Pen y Cymoedd Battery is a power station in Wales, United Kingdom. Pen y Cymoedd Battery is situated nearby to the peak Craig y Llyn, as well as near Panwaun Pen-y-Coetgae.- Type: Power station
- Description: battery energy storage power plant in Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Pen y Cymoedd Energy Storage”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Craig y Llyn and Llyn Fawr.
Craig y Llyn
Peak
Photo: Craigthomas1, CC BY 4.0.
Craig y Llyn is a mountain situated to the south of the village of Rhigos in the Cynon Valley on the south side of the upper Vale of Neath and north of the Rhondda Valleys in South Wales; it is the highest point in the ancient kingdom and, later, county of Glamorgan, and the southern Welsh coalfield plateau.
Llyn Fawr
Photo: FruitMonkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Llyn Fawr is a reservoir that occupies one of a series glacial cirques that form the northern escarpment of the South Wales Coalfield uplands, overlooking the heads of the Vale of Neath and the Cynon Valley, South Wales. Llyn Fawr is situated 1 mile northeast of Pen y Cymoedd Battery.
Llyn Fach
Photo: Nigel Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llyn Fach is situated 1 mile north of Pen y Cymoedd Battery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Blaenrhondda and Blaencwm.
Blaenrhondda
Village
Photo: FruitMonkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Blaenrhondda is a village in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, lying at the head the Rhondda Fawr valley. Blaenrhondda is a village and is part of the community of Treherbert. Blaenrhondda is situated 2 miles southeast of Pen y Cymoedd Battery.
Blaencwm
Village
Photo: FruitMonkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Blaencwm is a village in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, lying at the head the Rhondda Fawr valley. Two collieries were opened here during the Industrial Revolution, the Dunraven Colliery in 1865 and the Glenrhondda Colliery in 1911. Blaencwm is situated 2½ miles southeast of Pen y Cymoedd Battery.
Rhigos
Village
Photo: GaranRT, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rhigos is a village and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. The village is located on the saddle of higher ground between the Vale of Neath and the Cynon Valley. Rhigos is situated 2½ miles northeast of Pen y Cymoedd Battery.
Pen y Cymoedd Battery
- Categories: battery storage power station and industry
- Location: Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.7072° or 51° 42′ 26″ northLongitude
-3.58544° or 3° 35′ 8″ westOperator
VattenfallOpen location code
9C3RPC47+VROpenStreetMap ID
way 738926636Wikidata ID
Q116884220
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