Power plant · South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Highfield Farm, Royston Road - Solar Farm & Battery Storage
Highfield Farm, Royston Road - Solar Farm & Battery Storage is a cancelled battery storage plant in South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, with 4.5 MW of capacity, operated by Grupotec Solar 3 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 | South Cambridgeshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Highfield Farm, Royston Road, Litlington, SG8 9NJ | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Cancelled (planning permission granted, permission expired) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 3 Aug 2023 (permit 23/01317/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by South Cambridgeshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 5 Apr 2023 (reference 23/01317/FUL, planning authority South Cambridgeshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 3 Aug 2023 (granted, reference 23/01317/FUL, planning authority South Cambridgeshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Grupotec Solar 3 UK Limited (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 4.5 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 | 52.0488, -0.0653 | 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 South Cambridgeshire, reference 23/01317/FUL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority South Cambridgeshire, reference 23/01317/FUL)
How it compares
Highfield Farm, Royston Road - Solar Farm & Battery Storage is the 2,720th-largest of 4,035 power plants in England and the 3,981st-largest of 5,834 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 4.5 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 | 2,720th of 4,035 | 134,434 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 3,981st of 5,834 | 200,500 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants in our data | 12,680th of 15,799 | 1,918,113 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 19 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 1 AI supercomputer and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 5, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starwood House | Data center | — | — | 12 km |
| West Cambridge Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 20 km |
| Redcentric Cambridge | Data center | — | — | 25 km |
| NVIDIA Cambridge-1 | AI supercomputer | 202 H100e | Operating | 34 km |
| North London (Electricity Line) Reinforcement | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 49 km |
Operator and place
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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.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.