Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Gosfield Airfield grid connection
Gosfield Airfield grid connection is a grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 10.8 MW of capacity, held by Camborne Energy Storage.
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 Thaxted Grid 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 | Camborne Energy Storage | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Gosfield Airfield (matched by name+coordinates+technology+capacity, 0.82 km away) | Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 10.8 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 | 18 Dec 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 | 51.9488, 0.5830 | 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: Gosfield Airfield
- Permit granted: Gosfield Airfield (planning authority Braintree, reference 13/01463/FUL)
- Permit applied for: Gosfield Airfield (planning authority Braintree, reference 13/01463/FUL)
How it compares
Gosfield Airfield grid connection is the 1,786th-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 2,526th-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 10.8 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 | 1,786th of 3,539 | 341,715 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,526th of 4,870 | 467,981 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 6,123rd of 8,618 | 1,355,288 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 311 power plants (122 operating, 3,387 MW), 195 substations, 6 data centers, 1 transmission line 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gosfield Airfield | Power plant | 12.6 MW | Operating | 0.8 km |
| Halstead Primary 11kV | Substation | — | — | 3.4 km |
| Kentishes Solar Farm | Power plant | 5 MW | Operating | 5.0 km |
| Kentish Farm 2 - Battery Energy Storage | Power plant | 22.5 MW | Planned | 5.1 km |
| Wethersfield Primary 11kV | Substation | — | — | 6.6 km |
| Lake & Elliot Primary 11kV | Substation | — | — | 8.4 km |
| Bramford to Twinstead | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 20 km |
| NVIDIA Cambridge-1 | AI supercomputer | 202 H100e | Operating | 37 km |
| Kao Data KLON-02 | Data center | — | — | 37 km |
Holder, grid operator and place
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- Bute Hydrogen Project 3 grid connection3,600 MW
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- Bute Hydrogen Project 6 grid connection3,600 MW
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.