Power plant · County Durham, England, United Kingdom
Fox Cover Solar Farm - Ground Mounted Photovoltaic Panels
Fox Cover Solar Farm - Ground Mounted Photovoltaic Panels is a permitted power plant in County Durham, England, United Kingdom, with 8 MW of capacity, operated by Enviromena Project Management UK Limited.
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 | County Durham (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | W/O Admiralty Way, Dawdon, Seaham, SR7 8FB | 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 | 12 Mar 2025 (permit DM/24/00783/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 | 23 Mar 2024 (reference DM/24/00783/FPA, planning authority County Durham) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 12 Mar 2025 (granted, reference DM/24/00783/FPA, planning authority County Durham) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Enviromena Project Management UK Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 8 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 | 8.78 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 54.8209, -1.3348 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Fox Cover Solar Farm - Ground Mounted Photovoltaic Panels is the 1,529th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,371st-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 8 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 | 1,529th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,371st of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,473rd of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 277 grid connections (139 operating, 1,666 MW), 163 substations and 5 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 8 MW grid connection at Stoney Cut | Grid connection | 8 MW | Planned | 0.4 km |
| Solar 3 MW grid connection at Stoney Cut | Grid connection | 3 MW | Operating | 1.4 km |
| Stoney Cut | Substation | — | — | 1.6 km |
| Battery storage 100 MW grid connection at Southeast of Church Lane BESS Direct | Grid connection | 100 MW | Planned | 3.4 km |
| Hawthorn Pit | Substation | — | — | 4.4 km |
| Hawthorn Pit Grid | Substation | — | — | 4.6 km |
| DXC Wynyard Data Center | Data center | — | — | 21 km |
| Stellium Newcastle Campus | Data center | — | — | 24 km |
| Lumen Technologies data center, Middlesbrough | Data center | — | — | 28 km |
Operator and place
Grid connections attached to this power plant
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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.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Rare Context entity resolution. Rare Context entity resolution, CC0 1.0.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.