Power plant · County Durham, England, United Kingdom

Edge Lane, Maiden Law - Solar Farm & Battery Storage

Edge Lane, Maiden Law - Solar Farm & Battery Storage is a permitted power plant in County Durham, England, United Kingdom, with 45 MW of capacity, operated by Lightsource BP.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	County Durham (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	East Of Edge Lane Maiden Law, DH7 0RY	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Permitted (appeal granted)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	22 Apr 2026 (permit DM/22/01769/FPA, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by County Durham)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	30 Jun 2022 (reference DM/22/01769/FPA, planning authority County Durham)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	10 Mar 2025 (refused, reference DM/22/01769/FPA, planning authority County Durham)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	22 Apr 2026 (appeal granted, reference DM/22/01769/FPA, planning authority County Durham)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	22 Apr 2026 (granted, reference DM/22/01769/FPA, planning authority County Durham)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Lightsource BP	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	45 MW	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Battery (co-located with re)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	54.8361, -1.7211	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Latest events

Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.

22 Apr 2026Permit granted (appeal granted, planning authority County Durham, reference DM/22/01769/FPA)
22 Apr 2026Permit granted (planning authority County Durham, reference DM/22/01769/FPA)
10 Mar 2025Permit refused (planning authority County Durham, reference DM/22/01769/FPA)
30 Jun 2022Permit applied for (planning authority County Durham, reference DM/22/01769/FPA)

How it compares

Edge Lane, Maiden Law - Solar Farm & Battery Storage is the 811th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,289th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 45 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	811th of 2,174	185,888 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	1,289th of 3,222	300,461 MW	<0.1%
All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data	2,422nd of 6,455	664,040 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 279 grid connections (144 operating, 1,918 MW), 165 substations and 4 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
Solar 41.8 MW grid connection at Moor Leaze Solar Direct	Grid connection	41.8 MW	Planned	0.7 km
Solar 4.15 MW grid connection at Annfield 66/20kV	Grid connection	4.15 MW	Operating	1.6 km
Battery storage 46.55 MW grid connection at Morrow Edge Solar	Grid connection	46.6 MW	Planned	1.6 km
Annfield	Substation	—	—	1.7 km
Annfield 66/20kV	Substation	—	—	1.7 km
Tanfield	Substation	—	—	5.7 km
Stellium Newcastle Campus	Data center	—	—	24 km
DXC Wynyard Data Center	Data center	—	—	35 km
Pulsant data center, England	Data center	—	—	41 km

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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.
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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