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Grid connection · England, United Kingdom

Woodlands Farm grid connection

Woodlands Farm grid connection is a planned grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 40 MW of capacity, held by EEB45 Limited.

Map: where Woodlands Farm grid connection lies
52.1719, 1.0159 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 Bramford)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
StatusPlanned (accepted to connect)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
HolderEEB45 LimitedUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Capacity40 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
Queue date28 Nov 2019UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Connection date6 Jun 2025 (target energisation)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Voltage132 kVUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates52.1719, 1.0159UK 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

Woodlands Farm grid connection is the 910th-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 1,297th-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 40 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
England910th of 3,539341,715 MW<0.1%
United Kingdom1,297th of 4,870467,981 MW<0.1%
All grid connections in our data4,547th of 8,6181,355,288 MW<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this grid connection from its sources, oldest first.

  1. Entered the connection queue
  2. Was due to connect; the register does not list it as connected

Nearby

Within 50 km of this grid connection: 250 power plants (88 operating, 2,457 MW), 119 substations, 3 transmission lines and 1 data center, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

NameKindSizeStatusDistance
Stowmarket Grid 11kVSubstation——0.3 km
Stowmarket Grid 33kVSubstation——0.3 km
Climax Molybdenum UK Limited, Needham Road - Solar PV PanelsPower plant1.2 MWPermitted1.1 km
Mid Suffolk Home Solar SchemePower plant4.8 MWOperating2.7 km
Blacksmiths Lane, Middlewood Green - Solar FarmPower plant30 MWPermitted5.5 km
Claydon Cement Primary 11kVSubstation——8.8 km
Bramford to TwinsteadTransmission line—Permitted21 km
LionLink InterconnectorTransmission line—Planned35 km
US Air Force data center, BrandonData center——40 km

Holder, grid operator and place

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