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Olives Farm grid connection

Olives Farm grid connection is a planned grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 49.9 MW of capacity, connected by South Eastern Power Networks plc (UK Power Networks, South East England licence area).

Map: where Olives Farm grid connection lies
50.8606, 0.3832 on OpenStreetMap

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.

FactValueSource
LocationEngland (connects at Ninfield)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
StatusPlanned (accepted to connect)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Capacity49.9 MWUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
TechnologyBattery storageUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Grid operatorSouth Eastern Power Networks plc (UK Power Networks, South East England licence area)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Queue date6 Jan 2020UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Connection date31 Dec 2030 (target energisation)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Voltage132 kVUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates50.8606, 0.3832UK 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.

How it compares

Olives Farm grid connection is the 698th-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 997th-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 49.9 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.

WithinRankTotalShare
England698th of 3,539341,715 MW<0.1%
United Kingdom997th of 4,870467,981 MW<0.1%
All grid connections in our data4,183rd of 8,6181,355,288 MW<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this grid connection from its sources, oldest first.

  1. Entered the connection queue
  2. Due to connect

Nearby

Within 50 km of this grid connection: 123 substations, 120 power plants (43 operating, 1,206 MW) and 6 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

NameKindSizeStatusDistance
Pashley FarmPower plant11.5 MWOperating3.6 km
Pashley Farm, Ninfield Road - Battery Energy Storage SystemPower plant130 MWPlanned3.8 km
Moor Hall Farm, Moor Hall Drive - Battery Energy Storage FacilityPower plant400 MWPermitted3.8 km
Little Common 11kVSubstation——4.1 km
Ninfield Grid 33kVSubstation——4.4 km
Ninfield Local 11kVSubstation——4.4 km
Goldman Sachs data center, East GrinsteadData center——43 km
CXD Infrastructure SolutionsData center——48 km
CustodianDC MaidstoneData center——48 km

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