Grid connection · England, United Kingdom

Solar 10 MW grid connection at Bilsham

Solar 10 MW grid connection at Bilsham is a grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 10 MW of capacity, connected by Southern Electric Power Distribution plc.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Name in the source	Solar 10 MW grid connection at BILSHAM	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Location	England (connects at Bilsham)	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
Attached to	Bilsham Primary (via a primary substation)	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	10 MW	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Solar	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
Voltage	11 kV	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	50.8101, -0.6215	SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Solar 10 MW grid connection at Bilsham is the 1,332nd-largest of 2,533 grid connections in England and the 2,105th-largest of 3,903 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 10 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	1,332nd of 2,533	319,370 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	2,105th of 3,903	446,745 MW	<0.1%
All grid connections in our data	5,678th of 7,616	1,281,251 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this grid connection: 152 power plants (69 operating, 852 MW), 85 substations and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 7, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Rookery Farm	Power plant	3.8 MW	Operating	0.4 km
Bilsham Primary	Substation	—	—	0.5 km
Bilsham Farm	Power plant	14.5 MW	Operating	0.9 km
Land at Barnham	Power plant	1 MW	Operating	2.4 km
South Bersted Primary	Substation	—	—	3.5 km
Argyle Road Primary	Substation	—	—	5.0 km
Aquind Interconnector	Transmission line	—	Planned	32 km

Grid operator and place

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Data on this page

California ISO. Checked 2026-10-24. CAISO queue report, CAISO Privacy and Terms of Use.
DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD). 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.
Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects. 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.