Power plant · Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom

Forest Gate - Solar Farm & Battery Storage

Forest Gate - Solar Farm & Battery Storage is a cancelled solar power plant in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, with 49.9 MW of capacity, operated by Eden Renewables.

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	Forest Gate, Pewsham, Chippenham, SN15 3RS	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Cancelled (planning permission granted, permission expired)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	10 Mar 2023 (permit PL/2021/06112, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Wiltshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	11 Jun 2021 (reference PL/2021/06112, planning authority Wiltshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	10 Mar 2023 (granted, reference PL/2021/06112, planning authority Wiltshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Eden Renewables (applicant)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	49.9 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	82.3 ha (solar site area)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	51.4433, -2.0740	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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10 Mar 2023Permit granted (planning authority Wiltshire, reference PL/2021/06112)
11 Jun 2021Permit applied for (planning authority Wiltshire, reference PL/2021/06112)

How it compares

Forest Gate - Solar Farm & Battery Storage is the 305th-largest of 4,035 power plants in England and the 538th-largest of 5,834 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 49.9 MW is <0.1% of the 200,500 MW we hold for the United Kingdom. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
England	305th of 4,035	134,434 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	538th of 5,834	200,500 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	3,762nd of 15,799	1,918,113 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 179 grid connections (108 operating, 1,213 MW), 105 substations, 7 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
Forest Gate - PV grid connection	Grid connection	40.3 MW	Planned	0.2 km
Cocklebury Primary	Substation	—	—	3.4 km
Chippenham BSP	Substation	—	—	3.5 km
Chippenham Project grid connection	Grid connection	11.4 MW	Operating	3.6 km
Rowden Primary	Substation	—	—	4.3 km
Calne Power Generation Plant grid connection	Grid connection	7.13 MW	Operating	5.4 km
Ark Data Centres	Data center	—	—	10 km
Data center, England (OSM way 996865179)	Data center	—	—	10 km
Vodafone	Data center	—	—	20 km

Operator and place

Grid connections attached to this power plant

Forest Gate - PV grid connection40.3 MW

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