Power plant · Swindon, England, United Kingdom
Building ONE
Building ONE is a power plant under construction in Swindon, England, United Kingdom, with 1.2 MW of capacity, operated by Science Museum Group.
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 | Swindon (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Building One Science Museum Gr, Red Barn, Wroughton, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN4 9LT | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Under construction | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 4 Jun 2019 (permit S/19/0229, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Swindon) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 19 Feb 2019 (reference S/19/0229, planning authority Swindon) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 4 Jun 2019 (granted, reference S/19/0229, planning authority Swindon) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Science Museum Group | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 1.2 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 |
| Coordinates | 51.5107, -1.7987 | 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 researchHow it compares
Building ONE is the 2,015th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 3,020th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1.2 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 | 2,015th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 3,020th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 6,251st of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 224 grid connections (125 operating, 1,404 MW), 150 substations, 10 data centers and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Science Museum grid connection | Grid connection | 70 MW | Planned | 1.0 km |
| Wroughton Air Field grid connection | Grid connection | 46.1 MW | Operating | 1.5 km |
| Wroughton Primary | Substation | — | — | 2.4 km |
| AWS Swindon Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 2.8 km |
| Common Farm PV grid connection | Grid connection | 3.8 MW | Operating | 2.9 km |
| Quarry Road Primary | Substation | — | — | 4.5 km |
| Chisledon Primary | Substation | — | — | 4.9 km |
| Vodafone | Data center | — | — | 5.6 km |
| Nationwide Swindon Technology Centre | Data center | — | — | 7.3 km |
Operator and place
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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.