Power plant · Westmorland and Furness, England, United Kingdom
Cavendish Dock Road - Solar Array
Cavendish Dock Road - Solar Array is a planned solar power plant in Westmorland and Furness, England, United Kingdom, with 40 MW of capacity, operated by Associated British Ports.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Westmorland and Furness (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Cavendish Dock & Adj To The Port Of Barrow, Cavendish Dock Road, Barrow in Furness, LA14 2TW | 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 | 5 Mar 2025 (reference B03/2025/0085, planning authority Westmorland and Furness) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Associated British Ports (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 40 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 | 21.1 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 54.1019, -3.2273 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit applied for (planning authority Westmorland and Furness, reference B03/2025/0085)
How it compares
Cavendish Dock Road - Solar Array is the 681st-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,135th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 40 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 | 681st of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,135th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 2,366th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 138 grid connections (74 operating, 1,063 MW), 76 substations, 2 transmission lines and 1 gas storage facility, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barrow Offshore Windfarm grid connection | Grid connection | 90 MW | Operating | 0.4 km |
| Barrow Floating Solar grid connection | Grid connection | 15 MW | Planned | 0.6 km |
| Barrow Floating Solar grid connection | Grid connection | 11 MW | Planned | 0.6 km |
| Sandgate | Substation | — | — | 2.1 km |
| Chatsworth St | Substation | — | — | 2.1 km |
| Barrow | Substation | — | — | 2.6 km |
| Preesall Saltfield Underground Gas Storage | Gas storage facility | — | Cancelled | 27 km |
| Morgan and Morecambe Offshore Wind Farms Transmission Assets | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 39 km |
| East Irish Sea Transmission Project | Transmission line | — | Planned | 40 km |
Operator and place
More from Associated British Ports
- Port of Barry10 MW
- Port of Barry - Site 25 MW
- Port of Barry - Site 14.5 MW
- Port Of Immingham West Riverside, Immingham Docks - Wind Turbines4.2 MW · permitted
- Port Of Immingham West Riverside, Immingham Docks - Wind Turbines4.2 MW · permitted
- ANP Newport Wind Turbine2.3 MW
- Shed 10, Alexandra Road South, Immingham Docks - Solar Panels1.37 MW
- Shed 27, Alexandra Road, South Immingham - Solar Photovoltaic Panels1.07 MW
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.
- SP Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- 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.