Power plant · Cheshire West and Chester, England, United Kingdom
Chads Farm - Photovoltaic Arrays & Battery Storage
Chads Farm - Photovoltaic Arrays & Battery Storage is a planned solar power plant in Cheshire West and Chester, England, United Kingdom, with 15 MW of capacity, operated by Renewable Connections Developments Limited.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Cheshire West and Chester (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Chads Farm, Barhill Drive, Tushingham, Whitchurch, SY13 4QU | 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 | 21 Feb 2022 (reference 22/00224/FUL, planning authority Cheshire West and Chester) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Renewable Connections Developments Limited (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 15 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 | 38.4 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.0175, -2.6951 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit applied for (planning authority Cheshire West and Chester, reference 22/00224/FUL)
How it compares
Chads Farm - Photovoltaic Arrays & Battery Storage is the 1,081st-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,745th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 15 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 | 1,081st of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,745th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 4,090th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 32 grid connections (23 operating, 172 MW), 21 substations, 8 data centers, 3 gas storage facilities and 3 transmission lines, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salinae Hydrogen Storage project | Gas storage facility | — | Planned | 22 km |
| Reinforcement to North Shropshire Electricity Distribution Network | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 23 km |
| Keuper Underground Gas Storage Facility Material Change 1 | Gas storage facility | — | Planned | 28 km |
| Internet Central data center, England | Data center | — | — | 28 km |
| Keuper Gas Storage Project | Gas storage facility | — | Permitted | 29 km |
| nLighten Chester | Data center | — | — | 30 km |
| The Babbage Centre | Data center | — | — | 34 km |
| Chelford | Substation | — | — | 39 km |
| Alderley House grid connection | Grid connection | 1.8 MW | Operating | 43 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.
- 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.
- © 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.
- 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.