Power plant · Dorset, England, United Kingdom

Bottom Plain

Bottom Plain is a power plant in Dorset, England, United Kingdom, with 10 MW of capacity, operated by Low Carbon and Inazin Energy Limited.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Dorset (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Land at Bottom Plain, Bere Road, Trigon, Wareham	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	2014	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	1 Nov 2013 (permit 6/2013/0443, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Dorset)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	2 Aug 2013 (reference 6/2013/0443, planning authority Dorset)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	1 Nov 2013 (granted, reference 6/2013/0443, planning authority Dorset)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Low Carbon (Inazin Energy/Low Carbon)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Inazin Energy Limited (Inazin Energy/Low Carbon)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	10 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	15.7 ha (solar site area)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	50.7130, -2.1627	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.

4 Dec 2014Commissioned
1 Nov 2013Permit granted (planning authority Dorset, reference 6/2013/0443)
2 Aug 2013Permit applied for (planning authority Dorset, reference 6/2013/0443)

How it compares

Bottom Plain is the 1,102nd-largest of 3,430 power plants in England and the 1,838th-largest of 5,050 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 10 MW is <0.1% of the 115,622 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	1,102nd of 3,430	71,965 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	1,838th of 5,050	115,622 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	7,081st of 12,032	1,190,447 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.

2014Started operating

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 128 grid connections (81 operating, 699 MW), 94 substations and 1 data center, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 7, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Solar 3.762 MW grid connection at Oaklands PV	Grid connection	3.76 MW	Operating	1.4 km
Viridor Waste Management grid connection	Grid connection	3.8 MW	Operating	1.4 km
Trigon Solar Park Ltd grid connection	Grid connection	5.7 MW	Operating	1.6 km
Wareham BSP	Substation	—	—	3.5 km
Wareham Town Primary	Substation	—	—	4.5 km
Bovington Primary	Substation	—	—	5.3 km
Data Vault - Bournemouth BCP01	Data center	—	—	20 km

Operators and place

Low CarbonOperator
Inazin Energy LimitedOperator
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Grid connections attached to this power plant

Bottom Plain PV Generation grid connection8.55 MW

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Data on this page

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