Power plant · North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Land East of Appleton Farm
Land East of Appleton Farm is a solar power plant in North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, with 5 MW of capacity, operated by Gresham House.
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 Yorkshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Ld N Of East Appleton Hall Far, East Appleton, Richmond, North Yorkshire, DL10 7QE | 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 | 14 Sept 2015 (permit 15/00448/FULL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by North Yorkshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 16 Jun 2015 (reference 15/00448/FULL, planning authority North Yorkshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 14 Sept 2015 (granted, reference 15/00448/FULL, planning authority North Yorkshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Gresham House | 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 |
| Coordinates | 54.3579, -1.6343 | 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.
- Commissioned
- Permit granted (planning authority North Yorkshire, reference 15/00448/FULL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority North Yorkshire, reference 15/00448/FULL)
How it compares
Land East of Appleton Farm is the 999th-largest of 2,105 power plants in England and the 1,474th-largest of 2,942 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 5 MW is <0.1% of the 105,383 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 | 999th of 2,105 | 72,593 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,474th of 2,942 | 105,383 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants in our data | 9,594th of 12,230 | 1,691,896 MW | <0.1% |
Timeline
Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.
- Started operating
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 197 grid connections (100 operating, 1,182 MW), 97 substations and 5 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Appleton Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 4.5 MW | Operating | 0.1 km |
| East Appleton Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 4.5 MW | Operating | 0.1 km |
| Solar 22.5 MW grid connection at Turnstall Solar Farm | Grid connection | 22.5 MW | Planned | 0.1 km |
| Leeming Bar/Skeeby | Substation | — | — | 5.9 km |
| Catterick Camp | Substation | — | — | 6.4 km |
| Bedale | Substation | — | — | 8.0 km |
| Pulsant data center, England | Data center | — | — | 30 km |
| Lumen Technologies data center, Middlesbrough | Data center | — | — | 36 km |
| DXC Wynyard Data Center | Data center | — | — | 37 km |
Operator and place
More from Gresham House
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- Cockenzie Battery Storage System - Site B102 MW · permitted
- Harburnhead Wind Farm51.7 MW
- Glassenbury - Battery Storage System50 MW · permitted
- West Didsbury Battery Storage50 MW
- Enderby Storage, Redcomb Farm49.9 MW
- Low Farm Solar Farm49.9 MW · under construction
- Pleasance Road - Battery Energy Facility49.9 MW
Other power plants in England
- Drax Power Station Biomass Units2,580 MW
- Ratcliffe-on-Soar2,021 MW
- Cottam2,000 MW
- Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
- West Burton2,000 MW
- Eggborough1,960 MW
- Staythorpe1,828 MW
- Fiddler’s Ferry1,510 MW
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.
- 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.
- © 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.
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