Power plant · Fenland, England, United Kingdom
Colony Farm
Colony Farm is a biomass power plant under construction in Fenland, England, United Kingdom, with 4 MW of capacity.
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 | Fenland (coordinates), England | 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 | 21 Dec 2018 (permit F/YR18/0908/F, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Fenland) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 5 Oct 2018 (reference F/YR18/0908/F, planning authority Fenland) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 21 Dec 2018 (granted, reference F/YR18/0908/F, planning authority Fenland) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 4 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Anaerobic Digestion | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 52.5149, 0.2131 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this power plant and its owner.Who owns it up to the parent company, its grid connection and planning status, and an introduction to the owner.
Latest events
Dated events about this power plant from official notices, registers and owners' press releases, newest first. All recent changes.
- Construction started
- Permit granted (planning authority Fenland, reference F/YR18/0908/F)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Fenland, reference F/YR18/0908/F)
How it compares
Colony Farm is the 1,339th-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,133rd-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 4 MW is <0.1% of the 278,868 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 | 1,339th of 1,650 | 171,064 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,133rd of 2,548 | 278,868 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,299th of 5,799 | 656,876 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 196 grid connections (127 operating, 2,205 MW), 99 substations, 6 data centers and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upwell Lakes End Primary 11kV | Substation | — | — | 3.4 km |
| Upwell Wind Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 14.4 MW | Planned | 5.0 km |
| Coldham Windfarm grid connection | Grid connection | 16 MW | Operating | 8.5 km |
| White Mill /Coldham Windfarm 2 grid connection | Grid connection | 14.8 MW | Operating | 8.5 km |
| Littleport Primary 11kV | Substation | — | — | 8.8 km |
| March Grid 33kV | Substation | — | — | 9.4 km |
| Positive Park | Data center | — | — | 13 km |
| Longmarsh Green Energy | Data center | — | Planned | 23 km |
| Kings Lynn B Connection Project | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 25 km |
Place
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.
- 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.
- UK Power Networks. UK Power Networks open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.