Power plant · Central Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Astral Green - Wind Turbine, Solar Array & Battery Energy Storage System
Astral Green - Wind Turbine, Solar Array & Battery Energy Storage System is a permitted power plant in Central Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, with 1.5 MW of capacity, operated by Arnold White Estates 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 | Central Bedfordshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Astral Green, S/O Leighton Road And N/O The A505, Stanbridge, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 9BL | 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 |
| Onshore or offshore | Onshore | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 8 Apr 2024 (permit CB/23/03278/FULL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Central Bedfordshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 23 Nov 2023 (reference CB/23/03278/FULL, planning authority Central Bedfordshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 8 Apr 2024 (granted, reference CB/23/03278/FULL, planning authority Central Bedfordshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Arnold White Estates Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 1.5 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Units | 1 units (1.5 MW per unit) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Wind Onshore | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.8944, -0.6299 | 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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Astral Green - Wind Turbine, Solar Array & Battery Energy Storage System is the 1,935th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,924th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1.5 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 | 1,935th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,924th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 6,143rd of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 109 substations, 84 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW) and 78 grid connections (36 operating, 362 MW), measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data center, Dunstable (OSM way 526426719) | Data center | — | — | 8.8 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 1254986167) | Data center | — | — | 13 km |
| NTT Hemel Hempstead 2 | Data center | — | — | 19 km |
| East Claydon GSP | Substation | — | — | 19 km |
| Amersham GSP | Substation | — | — | 26 km |
| Cokes Lane Primary | Substation | — | — | 26 km |
| Generation 99 MW grid connection at Amersham Main | Grid connection | 99 MW | Planned | 27 km |
| Pembridge Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 131 MW | Planned | 29 km |
| Bicester 49.9MW - PV grid connection | Grid connection | 44 MW | Planned | 30 km |
Operator and place
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- Astral Green - Wind Turbine, Solar Array & Battery Energy Storage System2.09 MW · permitted
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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.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- 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.