Power plant · East Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Beane Solar Farm - Solar Panels
Beane Solar Farm - Solar Panels is a planned power plant in East Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, with 354 MW of capacity, operated by Renewable Energy Systems RES ltd.
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 | East Hertfordshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Nw/O Cottered & Sw/O The A507 Cottered, Buntingford, SG9 9QX | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned (planning application submitted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 20 Dec 2024 (reference 3/24/2245/FUL, planning authority East Hertfordshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Renewable Energy Systems RES ltd (Renewable Energy Systems RES ltd (Beaufort)) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 354 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Battery (co-located with re) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.9476, -0.0700 | 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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- Permit applied for (planning authority East Hertfordshire, reference 3/24/2245/FUL)
How it compares
Beane Solar Farm - Solar Panels is the 132nd-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 197th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 354 MW is 0.12% of the 300,461 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 | 132nd of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | 0.19% |
| United Kingdom | 197th of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | 0.12% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 437th of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 61 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 12 substations, 2 grid connections, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starwood House | Data center | — | — | 10 km |
| Hertfordshire Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 17 km |
| Colt London North Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 18 km |
| NVIDIA Cambridge-1 | AI supercomputer | 202 H100e | Operating | 24 km |
| North London (Electricity Line) Reinforcement | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 38 km |
| Cokes Lane Primary | Substation | — | — | 46 km |
| Tertiary Study grid connection | Grid connection | 57 MW | Planned | 48 km |
| Willesden GSP | Substation | — | — | 48 km |
| Harefield Primary | Substation | — | — | 48 km |
Operator and place
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- Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
- Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind Farm1,500 MW
- Hornsea 2 - Optimus and Breesea1,320 MW
- Hornsea 1 - Heron & Njord1,218 MW
- Atlantic Array One - Bristol Channel Zone1,200 MW
- Five Estuaries - Wind Farm1,080 MW
- Rugeley Power Plant Conversion1,000 MW
- Teesworks Battery Storage Project1,000 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.