Power plant · Vale of White Horse, England, United Kingdom
Cearn Solar Farm
Cearn Solar Farm is a planned solar power plant in Vale of White Horse, England, United Kingdom, with 100 MW of capacity, operated by Cearn Solar Farm 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 | Vale of White Horse (coordinates), England (South East) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Cearn Solar Farm is located within Vale of the White Horse District, Oxfordshire. It comprises three main development areas, situated to the south of Garford, east of Charney Basset, north of West Hanney, south of Goosey and north-east of Baulking. | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned (pre-application) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 1 Sept 2027 (reference EN0110044, planning authority The Planning Inspectorate, anticipated, expected September 2027) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Cearn Solar Farm Limited (applicant) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 100 MW (description) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Battery | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Solar Photovoltaics | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Area | 1,708 ha (application boundary) | planning.data.gov.uk · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.6586, -1.3880 | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · 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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Cearn Solar Farm is the 234th-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 401st-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 100 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 | 234th of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 401st of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 1,267th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 210 grid connections (106 operating, 1,348 MW), 180 substations and 22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manor Farm Solar Project grid connection | Grid connection | 13.4 MW | Operating | 0.6 km |
| 40MW Solar PV grid connection | Grid connection | 40 MW | Planned | 1.0 km |
| ADJ Milletts Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 60 MW | Planned | 1.6 km |
| Fyfield Primary | Substation | — | — | 3.8 km |
| Drayton BSP | Substation | — | — | 5.2 km |
| Grove Primary | Substation | — | — | 6.8 km |
| AWS Didcot Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 9.9 km |
| R89 | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
| University Shared Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 15 km |
Operator and place
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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.
- 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.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. planning.data.gov.uk, 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.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.