Power plant · Wokingham, England, United Kingdom
Aborfield Solar Park
Aborfield Solar Park is a solar power plant under construction in Wokingham, England, United Kingdom, with 14 MW of capacity, operated by Wessex Solar Energy.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Wokingham (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Bartletts Farm, Swallowfield Road, Arborfield, Reading, RG2 9JX | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Under construction | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 12 Mar 2021 (permit 200711, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Wokingham) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 23 Mar 2020 (reference 200711, planning authority Wokingham) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 12 Mar 2021 (granted, reference 200711, planning authority Wokingham) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Wessex Solar Energy | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 14 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Solar Photovoltaics | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Area | 19.7 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.3862, -0.9184 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this power plant and its operator.Who owns it up to the parent company, its grid connection and planning status, and an introduction to the operator.
Request researchLatest events
Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Construction started
- Permit granted (planning authority Wokingham, reference 200711)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Wokingham, reference 200711)
How it compares
Aborfield Solar Park is the 1,111th-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,792nd-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 14 MW is <0.1% of the 279,068 MW of power plants planned, permitted or under construction we hold for the United Kingdom. It is not built yet, so it is ranked among the power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data, apart from the ones running today. Ranks and totals cover the ones that report their capacity.
| Within | Rank | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1,111th of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,792nd of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 4,249th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 246 substations, 180 grid connections (92 operating, 1,035 MW) and 96 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arborfield PV grid connection | Grid connection | 14 MW | Operating | 0.4 km |
| Arborfield Primary | Substation | — | — | 0.6 km |
| Sheepbridge Court Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 3.88 MW | Operating | 3.3 km |
| Sheepbridge Court Farm Cottages grid connection | Grid connection | 19 MW | Planned | 3.3 km |
| Wokingham BSP | Substation | — | — | 4.6 km |
| Wokingham Primary | Substation | — | — | 4.6 km |
| Redcentric Reading | Data center | — | — | 5.5 km |
| Asanti - Reading | Data center | — | — | 5.7 km |
| CSquare London LHR3 | Data center | — | — | 6.1 km |
Operator and place
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Other power plants in England
- Drax Power Station Biomass Units2,580 MW
- Ratcliffe-on-Soar2,021 MW
- Cottam2,000 MW
- Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
- West Burton2,000 MW
- Eggborough1,960 MW
- Staythorpe1,828 MW
- Fiddler’s Ferry1,510 MW
Data on this page
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.