Power plant · South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

Larks Green Solar Farm

Larks Green Solar Farm is a battery storage plant in South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, with 49.5 MW of capacity, operated by Iron Acton Green and Enso Energy Limited.

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 North and West Of Iron Acto, Iron Acton, Bristol, Avon, BS37 9TX	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	2024	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	5 Jan 2021 (permit P20/13909/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	21 Aug 2020 (reference P20/13909/F, planning authority South Gloucestershire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	5 Jan 2021 (granted, reference P20/13909/F, planning authority South Gloucestershire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Iron Acton Green (Enso Energy / Iron Acton Green)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Enso Energy Limited (Enso Energy / Iron Acton Green)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	49.5 MW	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Battery (co-located with re)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	51.5784, -2.4747	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.

12 Nov 2024Commissioned
5 Jan 2021Permit granted (planning authority South Gloucestershire, reference P20/13909/F)
21 Aug 2020Permit applied for (planning authority South Gloucestershire, reference P20/13909/F)

How it compares

Larks Green Solar Farm is the 459th-largest of 4,036 power plants in England and the 729th-largest of 5,837 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 49.5 MW is <0.1% of the 200,833 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	459th of 4,036	134,406 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	729th of 5,837	200,833 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	2,446th of 13,028	1,354,089 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

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

2024Started operating

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 112 grid connections (68 operating, 876 MW), 53 substations, 12 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	—	—	8.5 km
University of Bristol Isambard-AI	AI supercomputer	5,448 H100e	Operating	8.9 km
Alderton Primary	Substation	—	—	18 km
Castle Combe PV grid connection	Grid connection	11.4 MW	Operating	20 km
40MW grid connection	Grid connection	40 MW	Planned	22 km
Hullavington PV Farm grid connection	Grid connection	6.65 MW	Operating	23 km
Yatton Keynell Primary	Substation	—	—	23 km
Tetbury Primary	Substation	—	—	23 km
Ark Data Centres	Data center	—	—	25 km

Operators and place

Iron Acton GreenOperator
Enso Energy LimitedOperator
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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.
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