Power plant · Derbyshire Dales, England, United Kingdom

Aston House Solar Farm

Aston House Solar Farm is a power plant in Derbyshire Dales, England, United Kingdom, with 20 MW of capacity, operated by Solar Century and Magnetar Solar.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Derbyshire Dales (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Land At Aston House Farm, Aston Lane, Sudbury, Derbyshire, DE6 5HG	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating (operational)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	2015	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	17 Nov 2014 (permit 14/00450/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Derbyshire Dales)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	7 Jul 2014 (reference 14/00450/FUL, planning authority Derbyshire Dales)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	17 Nov 2014 (granted, reference 14/00450/FUL, planning authority Derbyshire Dales)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Solar Century (Solar century / Magnetar Solar)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Magnetar Solar (Solar century / Magnetar Solar)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	20 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	45.5 ha (solar site area)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	52.8824, -1.7401	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Latest events

Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.

27 Mar 2015Commissioned
17 Nov 2014Permit granted (planning authority Derbyshire Dales, reference 14/00450/FUL)
7 Jul 2014Permit applied for (planning authority Derbyshire Dales, reference 14/00450/FUL)

How it compares

Aston House Solar Farm is the 573rd-largest of 3,430 power plants in England and the 1,079th-largest of 5,050 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 20 MW is <0.1% of the 115,622 MW we hold for the United Kingdom. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
England	573rd of 3,430	71,965 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	1,079th of 5,050	115,622 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	3,931st of 12,032	1,190,447 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.

2015Started operating

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 15 grid connections (9 operating, 116 MW), 8 data centers, 8 substations 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
Chesterfield to Willington	Transmission line	—	Planned	26 km
nLighten Nottingham	Data center	—	—	38 km
Internet Central data center, England	Data center	—	—	38 km
Experian	Data center	—	—	40 km
Ashwood Dale	Substation	—	—	43 km
Buxton 1 Battery grid connection	Grid connection	16 MW	Operating	44 km
Waterswallows 1 Battery grid connection	Grid connection	14 MW	Operating	44 km
Tunstead Stor 1 grid connection	Grid connection	16 MW	Operating	44 km
Waterswallows	Substation	—	—	45 km

Operators and place

Solar CenturyOperator
Magnetar SolarOperator
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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.
SP Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), CC BY 4.0.
Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages. Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages, Facts only, each linked to its page.
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.