Power plant · South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

Land adjacent to Church Road Solar Farm

Land adjacent to Church Road Solar Farm is a solar power plant in South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, with 3.5 MW of capacity, operated by Canadian solar.

Facts

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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 adjacent to Church Road and the M49, Severn Beach, Bristol, BS35 4NL	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating (operational)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	2016	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	1 Sept 2015 (permit PT15/1586/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	13 Apr 2015 (reference PT15/1586/F, planning authority South Gloucestershire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	1 Sept 2015 (granted, reference PT15/1586/F, planning authority South Gloucestershire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Canadian solar	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	3.5 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	51.5617, -2.6550	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Latest events

Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.

31 Mar 2016Commissioned
1 Sept 2015Permit granted (planning authority South Gloucestershire, reference PT15/1586/F)
13 Apr 2015Permit applied for (planning authority South Gloucestershire, reference PT15/1586/F)

How it compares

Land adjacent to Church Road is the 2,934th-largest of 4,035 power plants in England and the 4,277th-largest of 5,834 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 3.5 MW is <0.1% of the 200,500 MW we hold for the United Kingdom. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
England	2,934th of 4,035	134,434 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	4,277th of 5,834	200,500 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	13,125th of 15,800	1,923,633 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.

2016Started operating

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 74 grid connections (44 operating, 613 MW), 27 substations, 11 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	—	—	5.6 km
University of Bristol Isambard-AI	AI supercomputer	5,448 H100e	Operating	14 km
Vantage Data Centers - CWL13	Data center	—	—	26 km
Vantage Data Centers data center, Newport	Data center	—	—	26 km
Hinkley Point C Connection	Transmission line	—	Permitted	27 km
Hinkley Point C Connection Project Material Change	Transmission line	—	Planned	28 km
Alderton Primary	Substation	—	—	30 km
Castle Combe PV grid connection	Grid connection	11.4 MW	Operating	31 km
Spring Quarry West Primary	Substation	—	—	34 km

Operator and place

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Data on this page

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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.
JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), CC BY 4.0.
Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages. Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages, Facts only, each linked to its page.
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.