Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Park Grounds grid connection
Park Grounds grid connection is a grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 5.7 MW of capacity, held by Crapper & Sons Landfill 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Name in the source | PARK GROUNDS grid connection | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Location | England (connects at Park Grounds Generation) | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Operating (connected) | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Holder | Crapper & Sons Landfill Limited | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Swindon BSP (via a bulk supply point) | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Swindon Energy Plant (Park Grounds) (matched by shared name+coordinates+technology+capacity, 0.2 km away) | Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 5.7 MW | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Waste | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | Southern Electric Power Distribution plc | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Connection date | 21 Sept 2017 | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 33 kV | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.5547, -1.9276 | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Request researchLatest events
Dated events about this grid connection and the records linked to it from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Construction started: Swindon Energy Plant (Park Grounds)
- Permit granted: Swindon Energy Plant (Park Grounds) (planning authority Wiltshire, reference 17/03547/WCM)
- Permit applied for: Swindon Energy Plant (Park Grounds) (planning authority Wiltshire, reference 17/03547/WCM)
How it compares
Park Grounds grid connection is the 1,614th-largest of 2,533 grid connections in England and the 2,514th-largest of 3,903 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 5.7 MW is <0.1% of the 446,745 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 | 1,614th of 2,533 | 319,370 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,514th of 3,903 | 446,745 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 6,466th of 7,928 | 1,372,494 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 385 power plants (140 operating, 3,838 MW), 114 substations, 10 data centers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Park Grounds Farm | Power plant | 5 MW | Cancelled | 0.2 km |
| Swindon Energy Plant (Park Grounds) | Power plant | 6 MW | Under construction | 0.2 km |
| Spittleborough Farm | Power plant | 12 MW | Operating | 3.5 km |
| Wootton Bassett Primary | Substation | — | — | 3.8 km |
| Galileo Primary | Substation | — | — | 5.5 km |
| Vodafone | Data center | — | — | 5.6 km |
| Nationwide Swindon Technology Centre | Data center | — | — | 6.6 km |
| Lyneham Primary | Substation | — | — | 6.7 km |
| AWS Swindon Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 12 km |
Holder, grid operator and place
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- 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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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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- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
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- 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.