Power plant · Staffordshire Moorlands, England, United Kingdom

Land at Heywood Grange Solar Farm

Land at Heywood Grange Solar Farm is a solar power plant in Staffordshire Moorlands, England, United Kingdom, with 8.4 MW of capacity, operated by Sovereign Partners.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Staffordshire Moorlands (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Land at Heywood Grange, Tickhill Lane, Dilhorne, Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire, ST10 2PL	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	3 Sept 2015 (permit SMD/2015/0088, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Staffordshire Moorlands)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	18 Feb 2015 (reference SMD/2015/0088, planning authority Staffordshire Moorlands)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	3 Sept 2015 (granted, reference SMD/2015/0088, planning authority Staffordshire Moorlands)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Sovereign Partners	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	8.4 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	13.7 ha (solar site area)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	52.9977, -2.0575	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.

19 Oct 2016Commissioned
3 Sept 2015Permit granted (planning authority Staffordshire Moorlands, reference SMD/2015/0088)
18 Feb 2015Permit applied for (planning authority Staffordshire Moorlands, reference SMD/2015/0088)

How it compares

Land at Heywood Grange is the 1,707th-largest of 4,035 power plants in England and the 2,656th-largest of 5,834 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 8.4 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	1,707th of 4,035	134,434 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	2,656th of 5,834	200,500 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	11,066th 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: 62 grid connections (33 operating, 263 MW), 56 substations, 4 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
Internet Central data center, England	Data center	—	—	14 km
Dane Moss Solar PV grid connection	Grid connection	7.5 MW	Planned	28 km
Danes Moss Landfill Site 2 grid connection	Grid connection	2.1 MW	Operating	28 km
Danes Moss Landfill Site 3 grid connection	Grid connection	1.01 MW	Operating	28 km
S.E. Macclesfield	Substation	—	—	28 km
S.W. Macclesfield	Substation	—	—	29 km
Withyfold Drive	Substation	—	—	30 km
Salinae Hydrogen Storage project	Gas storage facility	—	Planned	31 km
Keuper Gas Storage Project	Gas storage facility	—	Permitted	36 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.
SP Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, 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.
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