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===Oil, gas and renewable energy=== [[Image:Pembroke Power Station-Geograph-3601523-by-David-Medcalf.jpg|thumb|right|alt=View of power Station|Pembroke Power Station in 2013]] There are two oil refineries, two [[liquified natural gas]] (LNG) terminals and the 2,000 [[Megawatt|MW]] gas-fired [[Pembroke Power Station]] (opened in 2012) at Milford Haven. The LNG terminals on the north side of the river, just outside [[Milford Haven]] were opened in 2008;<ref name="BBCNews19Mar2009"/> a {{convert|196|mile|adj=on}} pipeline connecting Milford Haven to Tirley in Gloucestershire was completed in 2007.<ref name="BBCNews27Nov2007"/> The two oil refineries are operated by [[Chevron Corporation|Chevron]] (formerly Texaco) producing {{convert|214000|oilbbl/d|m3/d|abbr=on}} and [[Murphy Oil|Murco]] (formerly Amoco/Elf) producing {{convert|108000|oilbbl/d|m3/d|abbr=on}}; the latter was sold to [[Puma Energy]] in 2015 with the intention of converting it to a storage facility.<ref name="BBCNews13Mar2015"/> At the peak, there were a total of five refineries served from around the Haven: the [[Esso Refinery, Milford Haven|Esso refinery]] operated from 1960 to 1983, was demolished in the late 1980s and the site converted into the [[South Hook LNG terminal]]; the [[Gulf Refinery, Milford Haven|Gulf Refinery]] operated from 1968 to 1997 and the site now incorporates the [[Dragon LNG terminal]]; [[BP]] had an oil terminal at [[Angle, Pembrokeshire|Angle]] Bay which served its refinery at [[Llandarcy]] and operated between 1961 and 1985.<ref name="RCAHMW14Apr2010"/> The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority has identified a number of areas in which [[renewable energy]] can be, and has been, generated in the county.<ref name="PCNPARenewable"/> Following several years of planning after the initial impact studies begun in 2011,<ref name="BBCNews8May2011"/> the first submarine turbine of three was installed in [[Ramsey Island|Ramsey Sound]] in December 2015.<ref name="BBCNews13Dec2015"/> The cumulative impact of single and multiple wind turbines is not without controversy<ref name="WT10Apr2013"/> and was the subject of a comprehensive assessment in 2013.<ref name="PCNPA11Dec2013"/> In 2011 the first [[Solar power in the United Kingdom|solar energy]] farm in Wales was installed at Rhosygilwen, [[Rhoshill, Pembrokeshire|Rhoshill]] with 10,000 panels in a field of {{convert|6|acre|ha}}, generating 1 MW.<ref name="BBCNews8Jul2011"/>
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