Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Lye Green Solar Farm grid connection
Lye Green Solar Farm grid connection is a planned grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 50 MW of capacity, held by Exagen Development 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 Elstree) | 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 | Exagen Development Limited | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Beechtree Junction, Potters Crouch - Solar PV Panels (matched by coordinates+technology+capacity+company, 0.43 km away) | Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 50 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 | 10 Mar 2022 | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Connection date | 31 Oct 2033 (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 | 51.7348, -0.3841 | 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: Beechtree Junction, Potters Crouch - Solar PV Panels (planning authority St Albans, reference 5/2025/1132)
How it compares
Lye Green Solar Farm grid connection is the 604th-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 862nd-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 50 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 | 604th of 3,539 | 341,715 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 862nd of 4,870 | 467,981 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 3,969th 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: 533 substations, 395 power plants (142 operating, 2,964 MW), 144 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beechtree Junction, Potters Crouch - Solar PV Panels | Power plant | 49.9 MW | Planned | 0.4 km |
| Appspond Lane (resubmission) | Power plant | 6 MW | Cancelled | 0.7 km |
| EQ Waste, Appspond Lane | Power plant | 6 MW | Cancelled | 0.7 km |
| Park St Primary 11kV | Substation | — | — | 2.9 km |
| Hemel East Primary 11kV | Substation | — | — | 3.5 km |
| Adelaide St Primary 11kV | Substation | — | — | 3.9 km |
| NTT Hemel Hempstead 4 | Data center | — | — | 4.0 km |
| NTT Hemel Hempstead 3 | Data center | — | — | 4.7 km |
| NTT Hemel Hempstead 2 | Data center | — | — | 5.2 km |
Holder, grid operator and place
More from Exagen Development Limited
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- 23MW PV grid connection23 MW
- Willowfields Energy Park, Marcham - Solar Panels49.9 MW · planned
- Beechtree Junction, Potters Crouch - Solar PV Panels49.9 MW · planned
- Warren Wood Energy Park - Solar Farm & Battery Energy Storage25 MW
- Willowfields Energy Park, Marcham - Battery Energy Storage20 MW · planned
- Buttercombe Lane - Solar Farm15 MW · permitted
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
- 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.