Power plant · Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Forest Gate - Solar Farm & Battery Storage
Forest Gate - Solar Farm & Battery Storage is a permitted power plant in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, with 40 MW of capacity, operated by Eden Renewables.
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 | 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 | Permitted (planning permission granted) | 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 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 40 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 | 51.4433, -2.0740 | 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.
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Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Permit granted (planning authority Wiltshire, reference PL/2021/06112)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Wiltshire, reference PL/2021/06112)
How it compares
Forest Gate - Solar Farm & Battery Storage is the 836th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,342nd-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 40 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 | 836th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,342nd of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 2,556th of 6,455 | 664,040 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
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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.