Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Upper PV Farm grid connection
Upper PV Farm grid connection is a grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 7.52 MW of capacity, held by Upper Farm Solar Limited.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Name in the source | UPPER PV FARM grid connection | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Location | England (connects at Upper Farm PV) | 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 |
| Holder | Upper Farm Solar Limited | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Alton BSP (via a bulk supply point) | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Upper Farm solar park (matched by name+coordinates+technology, 0.23 km away) | Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 7.52 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 | 33 kV | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.1716, -1.0938 | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 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.
Request researchLatest events
Dated events about this grid connection and the records linked to it from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Commissioned: Upper Farm solar park
- Permit granted: Upper Farm solar park (planning authority Basingstoke and Deane, reference 13/00653/FUL)
- Permit granted: Upper Farm solar park (appeal granted, planning authority Basingstoke and Deane, reference 13/00653/FUL)
- Permit refused: Upper Farm solar park (planning authority Basingstoke and Deane, reference 13/00653/FUL)
- Permit applied for: Upper Farm solar park (planning authority Basingstoke and Deane, reference 13/00653/FUL)
How it compares
Upper PV Farm grid connection is the 1,478th-largest of 2,533 grid connections in England and the 2,330th-largest of 3,903 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 7.52 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 | 1,478th of 2,533 | 319,370 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,330th of 3,903 | 446,745 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 6,266th of 7,928 | 1,372,494 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 264 power plants (102 operating, 869 MW), 243 substations, 33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Farm solar park | Power plant | 12 MW | Operating | 0.2 km |
| Preston Candover Primary | Substation | — | — | 2.6 km |
| Preston Farm, Preston Candover - Solar PV Array | Power plant | 28 MW | Permitted | 4.5 km |
| Herriard Primary | Substation | — | — | 4.6 km |
| Godsfield Solar Farm | Power plant | 11.8 MW | Cancelled | 4.9 km |
| Jays Close Primary | Substation | — | — | 8.4 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 1164817477) | Data center | — | — | 24 km |
| Ark Data Centres data center, England | Data center | — | — | 24 km |
| Datum Farnborough Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 24 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.
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- SP Energy Networks, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Energy Networks open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
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