Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Drappers Farm grid connection
Drappers Farm grid connection is a grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 5 MW of capacity, held by Lightsource Limited.
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 Braintree Local 33kV) | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Operating (connected) | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Holder | Lightsource Limited | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Drapers Farm Solar Park (matched by coordinates+technology+capacity+company, 0.17 km away) | Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 5 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 |
| Connection date | 4 Apr 2014 | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 33 kV | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.8576, 0.5037 | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
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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.
- Commissioned: Drapers Farm Solar Park
- Permit granted: Drapers Farm Solar Park (planning authority Uttlesford, reference UTT/13/0561/FUL)
- Permit applied for: Drapers Farm Solar Park (planning authority Uttlesford, reference UTT/13/0561/FUL)
How it compares
Drappers Farm grid connection is the 2,306th-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 3,191st-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 5 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 | 2,306th of 3,539 | 341,715 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 3,191st of 4,870 | 467,981 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 6,884th of 8,618 | 1,355,288 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 376 power plants (156 operating, 7,858 MW), 252 substations, 17 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drapers Farm Solar Park | Power plant | 6 MW | Operating | 0.2 km |
| Felsted School Road - Solar Photovoltaic Farm & Battery storage | Power plant | 49.9 MW | Cancelled | 0.6 km |
| Braintree Local 33kV | Substation | — | — | 1.1 km |
| West Braintree Primary 11kV | Substation | — | — | 1.1 km |
| Slamseys Energy Storage | Power plant | 10 MW | Under construction | 1.7 km |
| Lake & Elliot Primary 11kV | Substation | — | — | 4.6 km |
| NVIDIA Cambridge-1 | AI supercomputer | 202 H100e | Operating | 27 km |
| Kao Data KLON-02 | Data center | — | — | 28 km |
| Kao Data KLON-01 | Data center | — | — | 28 km |
Holder, grid operator and place
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- Bute Hydrogen Project 3 grid connection3,600 MW
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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.
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