Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Potten Street grid connection
Potten Street grid connection is a planned grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 84 MW of capacity, held by Farm Energy.
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 Richborough Grid) | 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 | Farm Energy | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 84 MW | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Wind | 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 |
| Queue date | 17 Oct 2025 | 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 | 51.3597, 1.2275 | 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.
How it compares
Potten Street grid connection is the 451st-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 578th-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 84 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 | 451st of 3,539 | 341,715 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 578th of 4,870 | 467,981 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 3,406th of 8,618 | 1,355,288 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 162 power plants (62 operating, 5,435 MW), 84 substations, 5 data centers and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Nicholas Court Farm (AD) | Power plant | 1.2 MW | Operating | 1.4 km |
| Marley Lane Solar Farm & Battery Storage | Power plant | 49.9 MW | Cancelled | 4.0 km |
| hanet Earth, Barrow Man Road - Solar Panel Array | Power plant | 1 MW | Permitted | 4.4 km |
| Richborough Connection Project | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 5.5 km |
| Westgate 11kV | Substation | — | — | 6.9 km |
| Herne Bay Grid 33kV | Substation | — | — | 9.2 km |
| Herne Bay 11kV | Substation | — | — | 9.2 km |
| The Bunker - South East Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
| Sota Datacentre | Data center | — | — | 35 km |
Holder, grid operator and place
More from Farm Energy
- Leys Lane - Solar Panels49.9 MW · planned
- Ware Solar Park - Solar Farm & Battery Energy Storage24 MW · permitted
- Barnard Castle - Solar Farm & Battery Storage System16 MW · permitted
- Pentland Road Wind Farm13.8 MW
- Dunlop Place, Meadowhead Industrial Estate - Wind turbine7 MW · planned
- Ware Solar Park - Solar Farm & Battery Energy Storage5 MW · permitted
- Barkin House Wind Farm4.7 MW
- Barnard Castle - Solar Farm & Battery Storage System4 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.
- 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.
- 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.