Power plant · West Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

Lathom (Pilkington Technical Centre) Solar Farm

Lathom (Pilkington Technical Centre) Solar Farm is a solar power plant in West Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, with 2.5 MW of capacity, operated by Lightsource Renewable Energy.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	West Lancashire (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Land To The E/O Lords Cottage, Hall Lane, Lathom, Ormskirk, L40 6JB	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	2019	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	31 Jul 2018 (permit 2018/0409/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by West Lancashire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	17 Apr 2018 (reference 2018/0409/FUL, planning authority West Lancashire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	31 Jul 2018 (granted, reference 2018/0409/FUL, planning authority West Lancashire)	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	2.5 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	8.7 ha (solar site area)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	53.5697, -2.8220	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.

16 Apr 2019Commissioned
31 Jul 2018Permit granted (planning authority West Lancashire, reference 2018/0409/FUL)
17 Apr 2018Permit applied for (planning authority West Lancashire, reference 2018/0409/FUL)

How it compares

Lathom (Pilkington Technical Centre) is the 3,153rd-largest of 4,035 power plants in England and the 4,572nd-largest of 5,834 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 2.5 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	3,153rd of 4,035	134,434 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	4,572nd of 5,834	200,500 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	13,634th of 15,800	1,923,633 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

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

2019Started operating

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 349 grid connections (195 operating, 1,737 MW), 322 substations, 17 data centers, 3 gas storage facilities 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
Halsalls Lodge grid connection	Grid connection	119 MW	Planned	0.2 km
Washway Farm BESS VAR1 grid connection	Grid connection	85 MW	Planned	0.6 km
Pilkington Technology Centre grid connection	Grid connection	2 MW	Operating	0.6 km
Washway Farm / Kirkby GSP	Substation	—	—	0.8 km
Skelmersdale BSP	Substation	—	—	1.9 km
Skelmersdale	Substation	—	—	1.9 km
Data center, England (OSM way 1551100328)	Data center	—	—	16 km
Iron Mountain	Data center	—	—	21 km
Verizon Warrington	Data center	—	—	22 km

Operator and place

Grid connections attached to this power plant

Pilkington Technology Centre grid connection2 MW

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Data on this page

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