Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Paddock Wood Solar Farm grid connection
Paddock Wood Solar Farm grid connection is a grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 7.92 MW of capacity, held by Luminous Energy Group 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 Pembury 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 | Luminous Energy Group Limited | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Paddock Wood (matched by name+coordinates+technology+capacity, 0.52 km away) | Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 7.92 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 | South 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 |
| Connection date | 27 Mar 2015 | 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 | 51.1703, 0.4091 | 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.
- Commissioned: Paddock Wood
- Permit granted: Paddock Wood (planning authority Tunbridge Wells, reference 14/502851/FULL)
- Permit applied for: Paddock Wood (planning authority Tunbridge Wells, reference 14/502851/FULL)
How it compares
Paddock Wood Solar Farm grid connection is the 2,009th-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 2,824th-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 7.92 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 | 2,009th of 3,539 | 341,715 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,824th of 4,870 | 467,981 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 6,491st of 8,618 | 1,355,288 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 308 power plants (124 operating, 6,729 MW), 306 substations and 44 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paddock Wood | Power plant | 9.2 MW | Operating | 0.5 km |
| Paddock Wood 11kV | Substation | — | — | 1.4 km |
| Maidstone Road, Horsmonden - Paddock Solar Farm | Power plant | 49.9 MW | Under construction | 3.1 km |
| Capel Grange | Power plant | 10.4 MW | Cancelled | 3.3 km |
| Capel 11kV | Substation | — | — | 3.6 km |
| Pembury Grid 33kV | Substation | — | — | 4.6 km |
| CXD Infrastructure Solutions | Data center | — | — | 15 km |
| CustodianDC Maidstone | Data center | — | — | 16 km |
| Sota Datacentre | Data center | — | — | 27 km |
Holder, grid operator and place
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- 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
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