Power plant · Oldham, England, United Kingdom
IGC, Lydia Becker Way - Solar Panels
IGC, Lydia Becker Way - Solar Panels is a permitted power plant in Oldham, England, United Kingdom, with 3.06 MW of capacity, operated by Ashcroft Electrical Services 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 | Oldham (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | IGC, Lydia Becker Way, Oldham, OL9 9JE | 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 | 11 Sept 2025 (permit SONDPR/354801/25, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Oldham) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 14 Aug 2025 (reference SONDPR/354801/25, planning authority Oldham) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 11 Sept 2025 (granted, reference SONDPR/354801/25, planning authority Oldham) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Ashcroft Electrical Services Limited (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 3.06 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 |
| Coordinates | 53.5427, -2.1468 | 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 Oldham, reference SONDPR/354801/25)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Oldham, reference SONDPR/354801/25)
How it compares
IGC, Lydia Becker Way - Solar Panels is the 1,373rd-largest of 1,651 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,184th-largest of 2,549 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 3.06 MW is <0.1% of the 279,978 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 | 1,373rd of 1,651 | 172,174 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,184th of 2,549 | 279,978 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,349th of 5,782 | 643,557 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 535 substations, 446 grid connections (252 operating, 2,231 MW), 22 data centers and 3 gas storage facilities, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IGC Lydia Becker Way grid connection | Grid connection | 2.74 MW | Planned | 0.0 km |
| Stock Lane Stor grid connection | Grid connection | 20 MW | Operating | 0.5 km |
| Zetex CHP+BESS Facility grid connection | Grid connection | 5.26 MW | Planned | 0.7 km |
| Chadderton | Substation | — | — | 1.5 km |
| Middleton Junction | Substation | — | — | 1.6 km |
| Chadderton BSP | Substation | — | — | 1.6 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 703959498) | Data center | — | — | 8.5 km |
| Asanti Manchester | Data center | — | — | 9.3 km |
| Equinix MA1 | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
Operator and place
Grid connections attached to this power plant
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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.
- SP Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, 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.
- Rare Context entity resolution. Rare Context entity resolution, CC0 1.0.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.