Power plant · Basildon, England, United Kingdom
Barleylands Solar Farm
Barleylands Solar Farm is a permitted solar power plant in Basildon, England, United Kingdom, with 17 MW of capacity, operated by Enso Energy 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 | Basildon (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Barleylands Barleylands Road Billericay, CM11 2UD | 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 | 8 Oct 2024 (permit 23/01468/FULL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Basildon) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 29 Nov 2023 (reference 23/01468/FULL, planning authority Basildon) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 8 Oct 2024 (granted, reference 23/01468/FULL, planning authority Basildon) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Enso Energy Limited (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 17 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 | 120 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.6015, 0.4488 | 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 Basildon, reference 23/01468/FULL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Basildon, reference 23/01468/FULL)
How it compares
Barleylands Solar Farm is the 1,059th-largest of 1,651 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,715th-largest of 2,549 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 17 MW is <0.1% of the 279,978 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 | 1,059th of 1,651 | 172,174 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,715th of 2,549 | 279,978 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 3,930th of 5,782 | 643,557 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 66 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 7 substations, 2 grid connections (1 operating, 2.2 MW), 1 AI supercomputer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imperium 315 | Data center | — | — | 3.0 km |
| CityFibre Cabinets | Data center | — | — | 14 km |
| Fujitsu Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 18 km |
| NVIDIA Cambridge-1 | AI supercomputer | 202 H100e | Operating | 29 km |
| North London (Electricity Line) Reinforcement | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 34 km |
| Tertiary Study grid connection | Grid connection | 57 MW | Planned | 38 km |
| Ariel Way White City London grid connection | Grid connection | 2.2 MW | Operating | 47 km |
| Volt Avenue Primary | Substation | — | — | 49 km |
| Willesden GSP | Substation | — | — | 49 km |
Operator and place
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Other power plants in England
- Drax Power Station Biomass Units2,580 MW
- Ratcliffe-on-Soar2,021 MW
- Cottam2,000 MW
- Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
- West Burton2,000 MW
- Eggborough1,960 MW
- Staythorpe1,828 MW
- Fiddler’s Ferry1,510 MW
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.