Grid connection · England, United Kingdom

Sowerby Lodge Solar Farm grid connection

Sowerby Lodge Solar Farm grid connection is a planned grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 12.5 MW of capacity, connected by Electricity North West Limited.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Name in the source	SOWERBY LODGE SOLAR FARM grid connection	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Location	England (connects at Barrow)	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Planned (accepted to connect)	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Attached to	Barrow (via a primary substation)	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	12.5 MW	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Solar	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Grid operator	Electricity North West Limited	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Queue date	28 Jul 2023	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Voltage	11 kV	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	54.1421, -3.2351	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Sowerby Lodge Solar Farm grid connection is the 1,259th-largest of 2,533 grid connections in England and the 1,998th-largest of 3,903 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 12.5 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	1,259th of 2,533	319,370 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	1,998th of 3,903	446,745 MW	<0.1%
All grid connections in our data	5,833rd of 7,928	1,372,494 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this grid connection: 125 power plants (46 operating, 1,889 MW), 74 substations, 2 transmission lines and 1 gas storage facility, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Sowerby Lodge	Power plant	4.2 MW	Cancelled	0.1 km
Sowerby Lodge Farm	Power plant	5 MW	Operating	0.3 km
Bowaters	Substation	—	—	0.4 km
Sandscale Park - Solar Array	Power plant	2 MW	Permitted	0.9 km
Barrow	Substation	—	—	2.0 km
Barrow & Sandgate BSP	Substation	—	—	2.0 km
Preesall Saltfield Underground Gas Storage	Gas storage facility	—	Cancelled	31 km
Morgan and Morecambe Offshore Wind Farms Transmission Assets	Transmission line	—	Permitted	43 km
East Irish Sea Transmission Project	Transmission line	—	Planned	43 km

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