Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Royston Solar Farm A505 Royston Bypass grid connection
Royston Solar Farm A505 Royston Bypass grid connection is a grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 7.5 MW of capacity, held by Solar Planning.
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 Melbourn 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 | Solar Planning | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 7.5 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 |
| Connection date | 16 Dec 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 | 52.0642, -0.0245 | 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
Royston Solar Farm A505 Royston Bypass grid connection is the 2,033rd-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 2,856th-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 7.5 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 | 2,033rd of 3,539 | 341,715 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,856th of 4,870 | 467,981 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 6,524th of 8,618 | 1,355,288 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 391 power plants (153 operating, 3,757 MW), 200 substations, 18 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royston Solar Farm (Phase 1) | Power plant | 5 MW | Cancelled | 0.4 km |
| Royston Solar Farm (Phase 1) (a) | Power plant | 5 MW | Operating | 0.4 km |
| Royston Solar Farm (Phase 2) | Power plant | 4 MW | Cancelled | 0.4 km |
| Bassingbourn Primary 11kV | Substation | — | — | 1.1 km |
| Royston Primary 11kV | Substation | — | — | 1.4 km |
| Melbourn Grid 33kV | Substation | — | — | 1.8 km |
| Starwood House | Data center | — | — | 16 km |
| West Cambridge Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 18 km |
| Redcentric Cambridge | Data center | — | — | 22 km |
Holder, grid operator and place
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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.
- 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.
- 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.