Power plant · Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Cooles Farm, Minety - Solar Park/Battery Storage
Cooles Farm, Minety - Solar Park/Battery Storage is a planned power plant in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, with 8 MW of capacity, operated by Ecotricity Generation Limited.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Wiltshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Cooles Farm, Minety, SN16 9QA | 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 | 7 Nov 2022 (reference PL/2022/08634, planning authority Wiltshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Ecotricity Generation Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 8 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 | 12.5 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.6361, -1.9730 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit applied for (planning authority Wiltshire, reference PL/2022/08634)
How it compares
Cooles Farm, Minety - Solar Park/Battery Storage is the 1,529th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,371st-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 8 MW is <0.1% of the 300,461 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 | 1,529th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,371st of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,473rd of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 158 grid connections (94 operating, 1,165 MW), 94 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Barn - Solar PV grid connection | Grid connection | 3 MW | Planned | 0.8 km |
| Minety Village Primary | Substation | — | — | 1.1 km |
| Purlieus Battery Storage grid connection | Grid connection | 95 MW | Operating | 2.2 km |
| DSO Charlton Park PV - 30MW grid connection | Grid connection | 30 MW | Planned | 2.6 km |
| Minety GSP | Substation | — | — | 3.7 km |
| Kemble RAF Primary | Substation | — | — | 6.6 km |
| Nationwide Swindon Technology Centre | Data center | — | — | 12 km |
| Vodafone | Data center | — | — | 13 km |
| nLighten Swindon | Data center | — | — | 17 km |
Operator and place
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- Atlantic Array One - Bristol Channel Zone1,200 MW
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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.
- 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.