Power plant · Bolsover, England, United Kingdom

Land at Bolsover Moor Quarry

Land at Bolsover Moor Quarry is a power plant in Bolsover, England, United Kingdom, with 5 MW of capacity, operated by Lightsource Renewable Energy.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Bolsover (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Land To The North And East Of, The Works, Whaley Road, Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S44 6XE	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	2017	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	29 Sept 2015 (permit 15/00334/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Bolsover)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	15 Jul 2015 (reference 15/00334/FUL, planning authority Bolsover)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	29 Sept 2015 (granted, reference 15/00334/FUL, planning authority Bolsover)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Lightsource Renewable Energy	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	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
Area	12 ha (solar site area)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	53.2406, -1.2513	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.

1 Mar 2017Commissioned
29 Sept 2015Permit granted (planning authority Bolsover, reference 15/00334/FUL)
15 Jul 2015Permit applied for (planning authority Bolsover, reference 15/00334/FUL)

How it compares

Land at Bolsover Moor Quarry is the 1,758th-largest of 3,430 power plants in England and the 2,742nd-largest of 5,050 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 5 MW is <0.1% of the 115,622 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	1,758th of 3,430	71,965 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	2,742nd of 5,050	115,622 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	8,380th of 12,032	1,190,447 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

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

2017Started operating

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 163 grid connections (92 operating, 797 MW), 144 substations, 7 data centers and 2 transmission lines, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Wind 20.22 MW grid connection at Pennyhill Windfarm	Grid connection	20.2 MW	Operating	8.8 km
Kiveton Park	Substation	—	—	10 km
Wind 4.5 MW grid connection at Kiveton Park	Grid connection	4.5 MW	Operating	11 km
Battery storage 40 MW grid connection at Kiveton Park PS Direct	Grid connection	40 MW	Planned	11 km
Beighton	Substation	—	—	14 km
Hackenthorpe	Substation	—	—	15 km
Hive IT	Data center	—	—	21 km
UoS IT Services	Data center	—	—	22 km
nLighten Nottingham	Data center	—	—	26 km

Operator and place

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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.
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.
Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
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.