Power plant · South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Emergency Air Operation Base, Gloucester Road - Solar Array
Emergency Air Operation Base, Gloucester Road - Solar Array is a planned power plant in South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, with 6 MW of capacity, operated by Bristol Energy.
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 | South Gloucestershire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Great Western Air Ambulance Charity, Emergency Air Operation Base, Gloucester Road, Almondsbury, Bristol, BS32 4FB | 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 | 30 Jan 2026 (reference P26/00151/F, planning authority South Gloucestershire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Bristol Energy (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 6 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 | 9 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.5521, -2.5552 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit applied for (planning authority South Gloucestershire, reference P26/00151/F)
How it compares
Emergency Air Operation Base, Gloucester Road - Solar Array is the 1,252nd-largest of 1,651 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,005th-largest of 2,549 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 6 MW is <0.1% of the 279,978 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 | 1,252nd of 1,651 | 172,174 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,005th of 2,549 | 279,978 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,128th of 5,782 | 643,557 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 99 grid connections (60 operating, 759 MW), 38 substations, 13 data centers, 2 transmission lines 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nLighten Bristol | Data center | — | — | 2.2 km |
| University of Bristol Isambard-AI | AI supercomputer | 5,448 H100e | Operating | 8.1 km |
| Alderton Primary | Substation | — | — | 23 km |
| Castle Combe PV grid connection | Grid connection | 11.4 MW | Operating | 24 km |
| Yatton Keynell Primary | Substation | — | — | 27 km |
| 40MW grid connection | Grid connection | 40 MW | Planned | 27 km |
| Spring Quarry West Primary | Substation | — | — | 27 km |
| Ark Data Centres | Data center | — | — | 28 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 996865179) | Data center | — | — | 28 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.
- Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, 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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.