Power plant · Stroud, England, United Kingdom
High Green Longney Estate - Solar Farm
High Green Longney Estate - Solar Farm is a cancelled solar power plant in Stroud, England, United Kingdom, with 25 MW of capacity, operated by Elgin Energy.
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 | Stroud (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Land To The East Of High Green, Longney, Gloucester, GL2 3SH | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Cancelled (planning permission expired) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 26 Sept 2019 (permit S.18/0537/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Stroud) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 5 Mar 2018 (reference S.18/0537/FUL, planning authority Stroud) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 26 Sept 2019 (appeal granted, reference S.18/0537/FUL, planning authority Stroud) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 30 Nov 2018 (refused, reference S.18/0537/FUL, planning authority Stroud) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 26 Sept 2019 (granted, reference S.18/0537/FUL, planning authority Stroud) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Elgin Energy (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 25 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 | 40.9 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.8081, -2.3240 | 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 researchLatest events
Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Permit expired
- Permit granted (appeal granted, planning authority Stroud, reference S.18/0537/FUL)
- Permit granted (planning authority Stroud, reference S.18/0537/FUL)
- Permit refused (planning authority Stroud, reference S.18/0537/FUL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Stroud, reference S.18/0537/FUL)
How it compares
High Green Longney Estate - Solar Farm is the 748th-largest of 4,035 power plants in England and the 1,250th-largest of 5,834 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 25 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 | 748th of 4,035 | 134,434 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,250th of 5,834 | 200,500 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants in our data | 5,845th of 15,800 | 1,923,633 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 88 grid connections (54 operating, 805 MW), 47 substations, 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DXC Technology | Data center | — | — | 13 km |
| Tetbury Primary | Substation | — | — | 22 km |
| Kemble RAF Primary | Substation | — | — | 24 km |
| Marsh Farm B PV grid connection | Grid connection | 11.4 MW | Operating | 26 km |
| Whiteway Primary | Substation | — | — | 26 km |
| Long Newton PV grid connection | Grid connection | 5.8 MW | Operating | 26 km |
| Sunstroom grid connection | Grid connection | 4.28 MW | Operating | 26 km |
| nLighten Bristol | Data center | — | — | 35 km |
| University of Bristol Isambard-AI | AI supercomputer | 5,448 H100e | Operating | 36 km |
Operator and place
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Other power plants in England
- Drax Power Station Biomass Units2,580 MW
- Ratcliffe-on-Soar2,021 MW
- Cottam2,000 MW
- Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
- West Burton2,000 MW
- Eggborough1,960 MW
- Staythorpe1,828 MW
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Data on this page
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- 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.
- Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, CC BY 4.0.
- JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), CC BY 4.0.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages. Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages, Facts only, each linked to its page.
- © 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.
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