Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
(ANM) Clacton Road grid connection
(ANM) Clacton Road grid connection is a planned grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 30 MW of capacity, held by Mespil Solar Energy.
Facts
Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | England (connects at Bramford) | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned (accepted to connect) | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Holder | Mespil Solar Energy | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Land North of Horsley Cross - Solar Farm & Battery Energy Storage (matched by coordinates+technology+capacity+company, 1.8 km away) | Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 30 MW | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Solar | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | Eastern Power Networks plc (UK Power Networks, East England licence area) | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Queue date | 11 Apr 2024 | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 132 kV | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.9006, 1.0873 | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
Research on this grid connection and its holder.Who holds it up to the parent company, the project behind it and its connection date, and an introduction to the holder.
Latest events
Dated events about this grid connection and the records linked to it from official notices, registers and owners' press releases, newest first. All recent changes.
- Permit applied for: Land North of Horsley Cross - Solar Farm & Battery Energy Storage (planning authority Tendring, reference 25/01056/FUL)
How it compares
(ANM) Clacton Road grid connection is the 1,078th-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 1,536th-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 30 MW is <0.1% of the 467,981 MW we hold for the United Kingdom. Ranks and totals cover the grid connections in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence.
| Within | Rank | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1,078th of 3,539 | 341,715 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,536th of 4,870 | 467,981 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 4,855th of 8,618 | 1,355,288 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 188 power plants (70 operating, 1,805 MW), 110 substations, 3 transmission lines and 1 data center, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Land North of Horsley Cross - Solar Farm & Battery Energy Storage | Power plant | 34 MW | Planned | 1.8 km |
| Wix Lodge | Power plant | 18.7 MW | Operating | 3.1 km |
| Wix Primary 11kV | Substation | — | — | 4.8 km |
| Burnt Ash Farm | Power plant | 13.5 MW | Cancelled | 4.9 km |
| Lawford Grid 33kV | Substation | — | — | 5.0 km |
| Foxash Primary 11kV | Substation | — | — | 6.0 km |
| Bramford to Twinstead | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 20 km |
| LionLink Interconnector | Transmission line | — | Planned | 45 km |
| CityFibre Cabinets | Data center | — | — | 48 km |
Holder, grid operator and place
More from Mespil Solar Energy
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- Fourstones - Solar Park49.9 MW · planned
- Kintore - Battery Energy Storage40 MW · planned
- Land North of Horsley Cross - Solar Farm & Battery Energy Storage34 MW · planned
- Primrose Hill Farm, Oxford Road - Solar Farm24 MW · planned
Other grid connections in England
- Bute Hydrogen Project 1 grid connection4,800 MW
- Drax BECCS grid connection3,906 MW
- Drax Power Station grid connection3,906 MW
- Bute Hydrogen Project 2 grid connection3,600 MW
- Bute Hydrogen Project 3 grid connection3,600 MW
- Bute Hydrogen Project 5 grid connection3,600 MW
- Bute Hydrogen Project 6 grid connection3,600 MW
- Hinkley Point C grid connection3,340 MW
Data on this page
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- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
- SP Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
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- Supported by National Energy SO Open Data. NESO TEC Register, NESO Open Data Licence v1.0.
- Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
- NYISO interconnection queue. NYISO interconnection queue, Free reuse.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- PJM New Services Queue. PJM New Services Queue, Free reuse.
- Rare Context entity resolution. Rare Context entity resolution, CC0 1.0.
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