Power plant · Forest of Dean, England, United Kingdom

Highleadon - Solar Arrays & Battery Storage

Highleadon - Solar Arrays & Battery Storage is a solar power plant in Forest of Dean, England, United Kingdom, with 49.9 MW of capacity, operated by RWE.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Forest of Dean (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Near Highleadon Highleadon, GL18 1HG	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating (operational)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	2025	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	11 Oct 2023 (permit P0265/22/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Forest of Dean)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	16 Feb 2022 (reference P0265/22/FUL, planning authority Forest of Dean)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	11 Oct 2023 (granted, reference P0265/22/FUL, planning authority Forest of Dean)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	RWE	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	49.9 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	116 ha (solar site area)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	51.9082, -2.3424	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Latest events

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1 Dec 2025Commissioned
11 Oct 2023Permit granted (planning authority Forest of Dean, reference P0265/22/FUL)
16 Feb 2022Permit applied for (planning authority Forest of Dean, reference P0265/22/FUL)

How it compares

Highleadon - Solar Arrays & Battery Storage is the 305th-largest of 4,035 power plants in England and the 538th-largest of 5,834 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 49.9 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	305th of 4,035	134,434 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	538th of 5,834	200,500 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	3,763rd of 15,800	1,923,633 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.

2025Started operating

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 40 grid connections (21 operating, 368 MW), 18 substations, 3 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	—	—	11 km
Shipton Oliffe Primary	Substation	—	—	28 km
Whiteway Primary	Substation	—	—	33 km
Tetbury Primary	Substation	—	—	33 km
Bathurst Estates grid connection	Grid connection	49.9 MW	Operating	33 km
Cirencester Solar Park grid connection	Grid connection	25 MW	Planned	33 km
Ionos data center, England	Data center	—	—	35 km
Crucis Park Estate LLP grid connection	Grid connection	12.6 MW	Planned	36 km
nLighten Bristol	Data center	—	—	44 km

Operator and place

RWEOperator
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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.
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.
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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