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Hydropower Permits

Publisher
Natural Resources Wales
Updated
14 October 2025
Topic
Not set
Licence
Not set

Summary

Permits issued for Hydropower Generation sites. NRW assesses and licences hydropower schemes for the water they abstract and to protect the local and wider environment; this may require issuing one or a combination of Abstraction, Impoundment and Transfer licences dependant on the scheme/site. This dataset details the permits issued for new, varied or renewed hydropower schemes.

Data links

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Download Data and Web Services 14/10/2025
Web Mapping Service 14/10/2025

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
30 May 2024
Harvest GUID
NRW_DS116337
Extent (Latitude)
53.513067° to 51.240829°
Extent (Longitude)
-5.777741° to -2.608865°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2023-10-27
Frequency of update
annually
Access constraints
There are no access restrictions on this data. NRW may release, publish or disseminate it freely.
Responsible party
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) (owner, custodian, originator, distributor)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng