Power plant · South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Airbus UK Industrial Complex - Solar panels
Airbus UK Industrial Complex - Solar panels is a permitted power plant in South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, with 3.14 MW of capacity, operated by Custom 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Location | South Gloucestershire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Airbus UK Industrial Complex, Bristol, BS34 7PA | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Permitted (planning permission granted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 25 Apr 2024 (permit P24/00385/PNRE, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by South Gloucestershire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 5 Mar 2024 (reference P24/00385/PNRE, planning authority South Gloucestershire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 25 Apr 2024 (granted, reference P24/00385/PNRE, planning authority South Gloucestershire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Custom Solar Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 3.14 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 |
| Coordinates | 51.5137, -2.5749 | 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.
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Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Permit granted (planning authority South Gloucestershire, reference P24/00385/PNRE)
- Permit applied for (planning authority South Gloucestershire, reference P24/00385/PNRE)
How it compares
Airbus UK Industrial Complex - Solar panels is the 1,753rd-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,683rd-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 3.14 MW is <0.1% of the 300,461 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 | 1,753rd of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,683rd of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,846th of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 94 grid connections (57 operating, 726 MW), 37 substations, 11 data centers, 2 transmission lines and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nLighten Bristol | Data center | — | — | 3.0 km |
| University of Bristol Isambard-AI | AI supercomputer | 5,448 H100e | Operating | 7.1 km |
| Hinkley Point C Connection | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 24 km |
| Castle Combe PV grid connection | Grid connection | 11.4 MW | Operating | 25 km |
| Alderton Primary | Substation | — | — | 25 km |
| Spring Quarry West Primary | Substation | — | — | 26 km |
| Hinkley Point C Connection Project Material Change | Transmission line | — | Planned | 27 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 996865179) | Data center | — | — | 27 km |
| Ark Data Centres | Data center | — | — | 27 km |
Operator and place
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- Atlantic Array One - Bristol Channel Zone1,200 MW
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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.
- Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, CC BY 4.0.
- 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.