Power plant · Sevenoaks, England, United Kingdom
Idleigh Court Road, New Ash Green - Solar Array
Idleigh Court Road, New Ash Green - Solar Array is a planned battery storage plant in Sevenoaks, England, United Kingdom, with 15 MW of capacity, operated by Evolution Power.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Sevenoaks (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | S/O Idleigh Court Road & E/O Hartley Bottom Road, New Ash Green, Gravesend, DA13 0JR | 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 | 27 Jan 2025 (reference 24/03422/FUL, planning authority Sevenoaks) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Evolution Power (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 15 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 | 51.3689, 0.3311 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit applied for (planning authority Sevenoaks, reference 24/03422/FUL)
How it compares
Idleigh Court Road, New Ash Green - Solar Array is the 1,081st-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,745th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 15 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 | 1,081st of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,745th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 4,090th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 77 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 21 substations, 3 grid connections (1 operating, 2.2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CustodianDC DA2 | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
| Fujitsu Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 13 km |
| OVH data center, England | Data center | — | — | 18 km |
| Tertiary Study grid connection | Grid connection | 57 MW | Planned | 34 km |
| North London (Electricity Line) Reinforcement | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 37 km |
| Ariel Way White City London grid connection | Grid connection | 2.2 MW | Operating | 41 km |
| Goldsmiths Primary | Substation | — | — | 44 km |
| Harvard lane Primary | Substation | — | — | 44 km |
| Southfield Road Primary | Substation | — | — | 44 km |
Operator and place
More from Evolution Power
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- 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
- Fiddler’s Ferry1,510 MW
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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.