Power plant · South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Hill Court Solar farm & Battery storage
Hill Court Solar farm & Battery storage is a permitted battery storage plant in South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, with 35 MW of capacity, operated by Longlands Solar Farm 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 Gloucestershire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Land At HIll Court Tranton Lane Hill, GL13 9ED | 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 | 29 May 2025 (permit P25/00579/F, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by South Gloucestershire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 12 Mar 2025 (reference P25/00579/F, planning authority South Gloucestershire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 29 May 2025 (granted, reference P25/00579/F, planning authority South Gloucestershire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Longlands Solar Farm Limited (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 35 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 | 51.6643, -2.5249 | 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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- Permit granted (planning authority South Gloucestershire, reference P25/00579/F)
- Permit applied for (planning authority South Gloucestershire, reference P25/00579/F)
How it compares
Hill Court Solar farm & Battery storage is the 762nd-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,252nd-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 35 MW is <0.1% of the 279,068 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 | 762nd of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,252nd of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 2,552nd of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 87 grid connections (52 operating, 750 MW), 33 substations, 12 data centers, 2 transmission lines 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nLighten Bristol | Data center | — | — | 14 km |
| University of Bristol Isambard-AI | AI supercomputer | 5,448 H100e | Operating | 19 km |
| DXC Technology | Data center | — | — | 23 km |
| Alderton Primary | Substation | — | — | 24 km |
| Tetbury Primary | Substation | — | — | 26 km |
| Castle Combe PV grid connection | Grid connection | 11.4 MW | Operating | 28 km |
| Hullavington PV Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 6.65 MW | Operating | 29 km |
| Marsh Farm B PV grid connection | Grid connection | 11.4 MW | Operating | 29 km |
| Malmesbury Primary | Substation | — | — | 30 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.