Power plant · Vale of White Horse, England, United Kingdom
Appleford Sidings, Sutton Courtenay - Solar Photovoltaic Array
Appleford Sidings, Sutton Courtenay - Solar Photovoltaic Array is a planned power plant in Vale of White Horse, England, United Kingdom, with 24 MW of capacity, operated by Infinis Solar Developments Limited.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Vale of White Horse (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Sutton Courtenay Landfill Site, Appleford Sidings, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned (planning application submitted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 19 May 2021 (ref. MW.0069/21, Vale of White Horse) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Infinis Solar Developments Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 24 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 | 37.4 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.6406, -1.2745 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Appleford Sidings, Sutton Courtenay - Solar Photovoltaic Array is the 1,151st-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,800th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 24 MW is <0.1% of the 300,661 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 | 1,151st of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,800th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 3,456th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 237 grid connections (111 operating, 1,329 MW), 203 substations and 1 data center, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 7, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sutton Courtenay grid connection | Grid connection | 12.5 MW | Planned | 1.0 km |
| Sutton Courtenay Landfill Site grid connection | Grid connection | 14.3 MW | Operating | 1.0 km |
| Milton Primary | Substation | — | — | 1.7 km |
| Generation 1.596 MW grid connection at Milton | Grid connection | 1.6 MW | Operating | 2.6 km |
| Winsmore Lane Primary | Substation | — | — | 3.3 km |
| Culham Primary | Substation | — | — | 3.6 km |
| SDC M40 Campus | Data center | — | Planned | 47 km |
Operator and place
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- Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind Farm1,500 MW
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- Hornsea 1 - Heron & Njord1,218 MW
- Atlantic Array One - Bristol Channel Zone1,200 MW
- Five Estuaries - Wind Farm1,080 MW
- Rugeley Power Plant Conversion1,000 MW
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Data on this page
- DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD). 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.
- Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects. 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.