Power plant · East Hampshire, England, United Kingdom

Barley Wood Farm Lane

Barley Wood Farm Lane is a solar power plant in East Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, with 5.4 MW of capacity, operated by Lightsource Renewable Energy.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	East Hampshire (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Land South of, Gaston Lane, Farringdon, Alton, GU34 3EE	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	31 Mar 2014 (permit 54507/002, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by East Hampshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	9 Dec 2013 (reference 54507/002, planning authority East Hampshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	31 Mar 2014 (granted, reference 54507/002, planning authority East Hampshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Lightsource Renewable Energy	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	5.4 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	14.9 ha (solar site area)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	51.1150, -0.9752	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.

20 Mar 2015Commissioned
31 Mar 2014Permit granted (planning authority East Hampshire, reference 54507/002)
9 Dec 2013Permit applied for (planning authority East Hampshire, reference 54507/002)

How it compares

Barley Wood Farm Lane is the 2,131st-largest of 4,036 power plants in England and the 3,238th-largest of 5,837 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 5.4 MW is <0.1% of the 200,833 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	2,131st of 4,036	134,406 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	3,238th of 5,837	200,833 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	9,060th of 13,028	1,354,089 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: 236 substations, 233 grid connections (125 operating, 1,232 MW), 33 data centers 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
Manor Farm grid connection	Grid connection	44 MW	Planned	0.4 km
PV Generation grid connection	Grid connection	4.75 MW	Operating	0.4 km
Manor Farm grid connection	Grid connection	64 MW	Planned	2.7 km
Alton Local Primary	Substation	—	—	4.1 km
Alton BSP	Substation	—	—	4.3 km
Bordon Primary	Substation	—	—	10 km
Data center, England (OSM way 1164817477)	Data center	—	—	22 km
Datum Farnborough Data Centre	Data center	—	—	22 km
Ark Data Centres data center, England	Data center	—	—	22 km

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Data on this page

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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.
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.
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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.
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