Power plant · South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Bassingbourn Barracks, Old North Road - Solar PV Arrays
Bassingbourn Barracks, Old North Road - Solar PV Arrays is a permitted solar power plant in South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, with 2.3 MW of capacity, operated by Defence Infrastructure Organisation.
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 | South Cambridgeshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Bassingbourn Barracks, Old North Road, Bassingbourn Cum Kneesworth, Royston, SG8 5LX | 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 | 17 Jul 2024 (permit 24/00481/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by South Cambridgeshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 22 Feb 2024 (reference 24/00481/FUL, planning authority South Cambridgeshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 17 Jul 2024 (granted, reference 24/00481/FUL, planning authority South Cambridgeshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Defence Infrastructure Organisation (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 2.3 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 | 4.4 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 52.0937, -0.0403 | 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.
Request researchLatest events
Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Permit granted (planning authority South Cambridgeshire, reference 24/00481/FUL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority South Cambridgeshire, reference 24/00481/FUL)
How it compares
Bassingbourn Barracks, Old North Road - Solar PV Arrays is the 1,410th-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,239th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 2.3 MW is <0.1% of the 279,068 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 | 1,410th of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,239th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,443rd of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 18 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW) and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 4, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Cambridge Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 15 km |
| Starwood House | Data center | — | — | 17 km |
| Redcentric Cambridge | Data center | — | — | 20 km |
| NVIDIA Cambridge-1 | AI supercomputer | 202 H100e | Operating | 38 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.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.