Power plant · Tower Hamlets, England, United Kingdom
Hedgehog Grove Solar Farm - Solar Panels
Hedgehog Grove Solar Farm - Solar Panels is a planned power plant in Tower Hamlets, England, United Kingdom, with 98 MW of capacity, operated by Totalenergies Renewables 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 | Tower Hamlets (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Hedgehog Grove Solar Farm, S/O The A120 Between Bannister Green And Bartholomew Green, E14 5NT | 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 | 24 Mar 2026 (reference 26/00440/FUL, planning authority The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Totalenergies Renewables Uk Limited (Totalenergies Renewables Uk Limited (Hedgehog Grove Solar Farm), applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 98 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 | 255 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.5027, -0.0149 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit applied for (planning authority The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure, reference 26/00440/FUL)
How it compares
Hedgehog Grove Solar Farm - Solar Panels is the 299th-largest of 1,651 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 492nd-largest of 2,549 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 98 MW is <0.1% of the 279,978 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 | 299th of 1,651 | 172,174 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 492nd of 2,549 | 279,978 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 1,406th of 5,782 | 643,557 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 141 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 82 substations, 35 grid connections (21 operating, 226 MW), 1 transmission line 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Realty Trust | Data center | — | — | 0.3 km |
| Cable & Wireless Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 0.4 km |
| Digital Realty LHR20 | Data center | — | — | 0.4 km |
| Tertiary Study grid connection | Grid connection | 57 MW | Planned | 5.5 km |
| North London (Electricity Line) Reinforcement | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 11 km |
| Ariel Way White City London grid connection | Grid connection | 2.2 MW | Operating | 14 km |
| Goldsmiths Primary | Substation | — | — | 17 km |
| Volt Avenue Primary | Substation | — | — | 17 km |
| Wesley Avenue Primary | Substation | — | — | 17 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.
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