Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Clayhill Farm (Clayhill 2) grid connection
Clayhill Farm (Clayhill 2) grid connection is a planned grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 34.9 MW of capacity, held by Anesco.
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 Sundon) | 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 | Anesco | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Greenfield Road - Samphill Solar Farm (matched by coordinates+technology+capacity+company, 1.22 km away) | Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 34.9 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 | 17 Sept 2020 | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Connection date | 31 Oct 2031 (target energisation) | 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 | 51.9771, -0.4840 | 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 refused: Greenfield Road - Samphill Solar Farm (planning authority Central Bedfordshire, reference CB/25/02017/FULL)
- Permit applied for: Greenfield Road - Samphill Solar Farm (planning authority Central Bedfordshire, reference CB/25/02017/FULL)
How it compares
Clayhill Farm (Clayhill 2) grid connection is the 1,050th-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 1,484th-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 34.9 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 | 1,050th of 3,539 | 341,715 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,484th of 4,870 | 467,981 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 4,781st of 8,618 | 1,355,288 MW | <0.1% |
Timeline
Dated facts about this grid connection from its sources, oldest first.
- Entered the connection queue
- Due to connect
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 438 power plants (155 operating, 3,382 MW), 249 substations, 28 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clayhill Farm, Greenfield Road - Battery Energy Storage | Power plant | 20 MW | Permitted | 0.9 km |
| Clayhill Farm - Battery Energy Storage | Power plant | 21 MW | Operating | 1.0 km |
| Westoning Primary 11kV | Substation | — | — | 1.1 km |
| Westoning Grid 33kV | Substation | — | — | 1.1 km |
| Greenfield Road - Samphill Solar Farm | Power plant | 38.4 MW | Cancelled | 1.2 km |
| Barton Primary 11kV | Substation | — | — | 3.8 km |
| Data center, Dunstable (OSM way 526426719) | Data center | — | — | 8.9 km |
| Starwood House | Data center | — | — | 19 km |
| Pulsant Milton Keynes SE-1 | Data center | — | — | 20 km |
Holder, grid operator and place
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Data on this page
- California ISO. CAISO queue report, CAISO Privacy and Terms of Use.
- 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.
- 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.
- UK Power Networks. UK Power Networks open data portal, CC BY 4.0.