Power plant · Cheshire West and Chester, England, United Kingdom
Jaguar Landrover Phoenix Building, Eric Foundation Road - Solar Array
Jaguar Landrover Phoenix Building, Eric Foundation Road - Solar Array is a permitted solar power plant in Cheshire West and Chester, England, United Kingdom, with 1.3 MW of capacity, operated by Jaguar.
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 | Cheshire West and Chester (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Jaguar Landrover Phoenix Building, Eric Foundation Road, North Road, Ellesmere Port, CH65 1BL | 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 | 17 Apr 2025 (permit 25/00515/P14, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Cheshire West and Chester) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 21 Feb 2025 (reference 25/00515/P14, planning authority Cheshire West and Chester) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 17 Apr 2025 (granted, reference 25/00515/P14, planning authority Cheshire West and Chester) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Jaguar (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 1.3 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 | 53.3064, -2.9307 | 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 Cheshire West and Chester, reference 25/00515/P14)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Cheshire West and Chester, reference 25/00515/P14)
How it compares
Jaguar Landrover Phoenix Building, Eric Foundation Road - Solar Array is the 1,511th-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,373rd-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1.3 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 | 1,511th of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,373rd of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,616th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 149 substations, 147 grid connections (89 operating, 628 MW), 15 data centers, 3 gas storage facilities and 1 transmission line, 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 Edge Data Centre Liverpool | Data center | — | — | 5.0 km |
| nLighten Chester | Data center | — | — | 6.8 km |
| The Babbage Centre | Data center | — | — | 13 km |
| Bold GSP | Substation | — | — | 21 km |
| Unit 1 Junction Lane grid connection | Grid connection | 5.26 MW | Planned | 25 km |
| Bickerstaffe WTW grid connection | Grid connection | 1.25 MW | Operating | 25 km |
| Amazon Man 8 grid connection | Grid connection | 1.39 MW | Planned | 26 km |
| Newton Le Willows | Substation | — | — | 26 km |
| Haydock | Substation | — | — | 27 km |
Operator and place
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- Staythorpe1,828 MW
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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.
- 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.