Power plant · Stafford, England, United Kingdom
Flashbrook Road, Knighton - Solar Farm
Flashbrook Road, Knighton - Solar Farm is a planned power plant in Stafford, England, United Kingdom, with 15 MW of capacity, operated by Scottish Power Renewables.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Stafford (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Adj Haberdashers Arms, Flashbrook Road, Knighton, Stafford, ST20 0QH | 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 | 29 Feb 2024 (reference 22/36478/FUL, planning authority Stafford) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Scottish Power Renewables | 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 | Battery (stand-alone storage) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 52.8508, -2.3755 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this power plant and its operator.Who owns it up to the parent company, its grid connection and planning status, and an introduction to the operator.
Request researchHow it compares
Flashbrook Road, Knighton - Solar Farm is the 1,344th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,094th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 15 MW is <0.1% of the 300,661 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 | 1,344th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,094th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 4,421st of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 6 grid connections (5 operating, 9.47 MW), 5 substations, 3 data centers, 3 gas storage facilities 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internet Central data center, England | Data center | — | — | 18 km |
| Salinae Hydrogen Storage project | Gas storage facility | — | Planned | 33 km |
| Reinforcement to North Shropshire Electricity Distribution Network | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 34 km |
| Hutchison 3G | Data center | — | — | 41 km |
| Keuper Gas Storage Project | Gas storage facility | — | Permitted | 42 km |
| Keuper Underground Gas Storage Facility Material Change 1 | Gas storage facility | — | Planned | 42 km |
| EE Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 43 km |
| Dane Moss Solar PV grid connection | Grid connection | 7.5 MW | Planned | 46 km |
| Chelford | Substation | — | — | 46 km |
Operator and place
More from Scottish Power Renewables
- Ossian3,600 MW · permitted
- Machair2,000 MW · planned
- East Anglia 3 (EA 3)1,400 MW · under construction
- East Anglia 2 (EA 2)900 MW · permitted
- East Anglia 1 North (EA 4)800 MW · permitted
- East Anglia 1 (EA 1)714 MW
- Kilgallioch wind farm239 MW
- Harestanes136 MW
Other power plants in England
- Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
- Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind Farm1,500 MW
- Hornsea 2 - Optimus and Breesea1,320 MW
- Hornsea 1 - Heron & Njord1,218 MW
- Atlantic Array One - Bristol Channel Zone1,200 MW
- Five Estuaries - Wind Farm1,080 MW
- Rugeley Power Plant Conversion1,000 MW
- Teesworks Battery Storage Project1,000 MW
Data on this page
- DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD). 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.
- Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects. 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.