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Stradishall Solar Farm grid connection

Stradishall Solar Farm grid connection is a grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 24 MW of capacity, connected by Eastern Power Networks plc (UK Power Networks, East England licence area).

Map: where Stradishall Solar Farm grid connection lies
52.1395, 0.5192 on OpenStreetMap

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.

FactValueSource
LocationEngland (connects at Belchamp Grid 33kV)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
StatusOperating (connected)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Capacity24 MWUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
TechnologySolarUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Grid operatorEastern 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 date10 Dec 2013UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Voltage33 kVUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates52.1395, 0.5192UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Stradishall Solar Farm grid connection is the 1,225th-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 1,777th-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 24 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.

WithinRankTotalShare
England1,225th of 3,539341,715 MW<0.1%
United Kingdom1,777th of 4,870467,981 MW<0.1%
All grid connections in our data5,142nd of 8,6181,355,288 MW<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this grid connection: 276 power plants (113 operating, 1,694 MW), 139 substations, 5 data centers, 1 transmission line and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

NameKindSizeStatusDistance
Broxted Solar Farm (Stradishall Airfield)Power plant31.6 MWOperating0.9 km
Wratting Primary 11kVSubstation——5.1 km
Wales End Road, Cavendish - Battery Energy Storage SystemPower plant10 MWPlanned7.9 km
Wales End Road, Cavendish - Solar FarmPower plant12.5 MWPlanned7.9 km
Haverhill Primary 11kVSubstation——8.8 km
Belchamp Grid 11kVSubstation——9.8 km
Redcentric CambridgeData center——27 km
Bramford to TwinsteadTransmission line—Permitted27 km
US Air Force data center, BrandonData center——29 km

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