Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Castle Combe PV grid connection
Castle Combe PV grid connection is a grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 11.4 MW of capacity, connected by Southern Electric Power Distribution plc.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Name in the source | CASTLE COMBE PV grid connection | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Location | England (connects at Castle Combe PV GEN) | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Operating (connected) | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Castle Combe Circuit (matched by shared name+coordinates+technology+capacity, 0.39 km away) | Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Chippenham BSP (via a bulk supply point) | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 11.4 MW | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Solar | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | Southern Electric Power Distribution plc | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Connection date | 31 Mar 2015 | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 33 kV | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.4924, -2.2196 | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Castle Combe PV grid connection is the 1,303rd-largest of 2,533 grid connections in England and the 2,061st-largest of 3,903 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 11.4 MW is <0.1% of the 446,745 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 | 1,303rd of 2,533 | 319,370 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,061st of 3,903 | 446,745 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 5,906th of 7,928 | 1,372,494 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 434 power plants (164 operating, 1,929 MW), 79 substations, 8 data centers, 2 transmission lines and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castle Combe Circuit | Power plant | 12 MW | Operating | 0.4 km |
| Yatton Keynell Primary | Substation | — | — | 2.8 km |
| Tiddlywink Barn Battery Storage Power Plant | Power plant | 20 MW | Cancelled | 2.8 km |
| North Allington Solar Farm - Solar Farm | Power plant | 10 MW | Permitted | 2.8 km |
| Alderton Primary | Substation | — | — | 7.0 km |
| Rowden Primary | Substation | — | — | 7.4 km |
| Ark Data Centres | Data center | — | — | 8.2 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 996865179) | Data center | — | — | 8.3 km |
| University of Bristol Isambard-AI | AI supercomputer | 5,448 H100e | Operating | 18 km |
Grid operator and place
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- 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
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Data on this page
- California ISO. The terms cover every document on caiso.com, the cluster reports included. CAISO queue report, CAISO Privacy and Terms of Use.
- DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD). 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.
- Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, CC BY 4.0.
- ERCOT GIS report. ERCOT GIS report, ERCOT Terms of Use.
- 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.
- PJM New Services Queue. PJM New Services Queue, Free reuse.
- Rare Context entity resolution. Rare Context entity resolution, CC0 1.0.
- SP Energy Networks, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Energy Networks open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.