Power plant · North Somerset, England, United Kingdom
Kitland Solar Farm
Kitland Solar Farm is a permitted power plant in North Somerset, England, United Kingdom, with 40 MW of capacity, operated by Statkraft UK 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 | North Somerset (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Land At Lower Stock Farm Bakers Lane Langford Churchill, BS40 5HT | 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 | 19 Dec 2024 (permit 24/P/1011/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by North Somerset) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 24 May 2024 (reference 24/P/1011/FUL, planning authority North Somerset) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 19 Dec 2024 (granted, reference 24/P/1011/FUL, planning authority North Somerset) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Statkraft UK Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 40 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 | 88.4 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.3515, -2.7688 | 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.
Request researchLatest events
Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Permit granted (planning authority North Somerset, reference 24/P/1011/FUL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority North Somerset, reference 24/P/1011/FUL)
How it compares
Kitland Solar Farm is the 912th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,437th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 40 MW is <0.1% of the 300,461 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 | 912th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,437th of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 2,653rd of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 81 grid connections (49 operating, 493 MW), 34 substations, 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hinkley Point C Connection | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 2.0 km |
| Hinkley Point C Connection Project Material Change | Transmission line | — | Planned | 5.0 km |
| Insight Data Ltd | Data center | — | — | 9.9 km |
| Tata Communications Highbridge Datacentre | Data center | — | — | 19 km |
| nLighten Bristol | Data center | — | — | 25 km |
| University of Bristol Isambard-AI | AI supercomputer | 5,448 H100e | Operating | 26 km |
| Holwell Primary | Substation | — | — | 31 km |
| Homewood Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 1 MW | Planned | 31 km |
| Landmark Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 5.5 MW | Planned | 32 km |
Operator and place
More from Statkraft UK Limited
- Neilston Greener Grid Park - Phase 2750 MW · permitted
- East Claydon Substation, East Claydon Road - Energy Storage500 MW · planned
- Stargoose Farm - Battery Storage312 MW · permitted
- Soay Solar Farm and Greener Grid Park200 MW · under construction
- Spennymoor Greener Grid Park200 MW · permitted
- Rhydypandy Road, Morriston - Battery Energy Storage System100 MW · permitted
- An Carr Dubh Wind Farm85.8 MW · planned
- Carn Fearna Wind Farm84.6 MW · planned
Other power plants in England
- Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
- Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind Farm1,500 MW
- Hornsea 2 - Optimus and Breesea1,320 MW
- Hornsea 1 - Heron & Njord1,218 MW
- Atlantic Array One - Bristol Channel Zone1,200 MW
- Five Estuaries - Wind Farm1,080 MW
- Rugeley Power Plant Conversion1,000 MW
- Teesworks Battery Storage Project1,000 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.
- 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.