Power plant · Basildon, England, United Kingdom
Great Cowbridge Grange Farm, London Road - Solar Farm
Great Cowbridge Grange Farm, London Road - Solar Farm is a permitted power plant in Basildon, England, United Kingdom, with 10 MW of capacity, operated by Conrad Energy 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 | Basildon (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Great Cowbridge Grange Farm London Road, CM12 9HR | 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 | 1 May 2025 (permit 24/01262/FULL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Basildon) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 27 Sept 2024 (reference 24/01262/FULL, planning authority Basildon) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 1 May 2025 (granted, reference 24/01262/FULL, planning authority Basildon) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Conrad Energy Limited (Conrad Energy (Developments) Limited) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 10 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 | 16.6 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.6278, 0.3953 | 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
Great Cowbridge Grange Farm, London Road - Solar Farm is the 1,441st-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,237th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 10 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 | 1,441st of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,237th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,307th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 69 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 15 substations, 3 grid connections (2 operating, 9.14 MW), 1 AI supercomputer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imperium 315 | Data center | — | — | 7.7 km |
| NTT London 1 | Data center | — | — | 18 km |
| CityFibre Cabinets | Data center | — | — | 18 km |
| NVIDIA Cambridge-1 | AI supercomputer | 202 H100e | Operating | 24 km |
| Solar 6.935 MW grid connection at Maiden Newton | Grid connection | 6.94 MW | Operating | 27 km |
| North London (Electricity Line) Reinforcement | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 31 km |
| Tertiary Study grid connection | Grid connection | 57 MW | Planned | 36 km |
| Ariel Way White City London grid connection | Grid connection | 2.2 MW | Operating | 45 km |
| Willesden GSP | Substation | — | — | 46 km |
Operator and place
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- Atlantic Array One - Bristol Channel Zone1,200 MW
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.