Power plant · Windsor and Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom
Billingbear Solar Farm
Billingbear Solar Farm is a permitted power plant in Windsor and Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom, with 21.5 MW of capacity, operated by WT 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 | Windsor and Maidenhead (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | S/O Valentines, The Straight Mile, Shurlock Row, Reading, RG10 0QN | 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 | 26 Jul 2024 (permit 22/02820/FULL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Windsor and Maidenhead) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 18 Oct 2022 (reference 22/02820/FULL, planning authority Windsor and Maidenhead) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 26 Jul 2024 (granted, reference 22/02820/FULL, planning authority Windsor and Maidenhead) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | WT Energy Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 21.5 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 | 28.6 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.4602, -0.8057 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Billingbear Solar Farm is the 1,186th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,852nd-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 21.5 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 | 1,186th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,852nd of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 3,683rd of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 235 substations, 161 grid connections (81 operating, 879 MW) and 111 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Land South of the Valentines grid connection | Grid connection | 17.9 MW | Planned | 0.3 km |
| Solar 20 MW grid connection at Twyford | Grid connection | 20 MW | Planned | 3.3 km |
| Peakgen Bracknell grid connection | Grid connection | 19 MW | Operating | 4.0 km |
| Warfield Primary | Substation | — | — | 4.8 km |
| Knowl Hill Primary | Substation | — | — | 5.0 km |
| Twyford Primary | Substation | — | — | 5.1 km |
| Keppel Data Centres (Vodafone) - London | Data center | — | — | 5.4 km |
| AWS Bracknell Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 5.4 km |
| Amazon Web Services | Data center | — | — | 5.4 km |
Operator and place
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- Atlantic Array One - Bristol Channel Zone1,200 MW
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- Rugeley Power Plant Conversion1,000 MW
- Teesworks Battery Storage Project1,000 MW
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.