Power plant · North Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
Little Crow Solar Park
Little Crow Solar Park is a permitted power plant in North Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, with 150 MW of capacity, operated by INRG Solar.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | North Lincolnshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Land located 0.6km to the east of the British Steel site at Scunthorpe, DN16 1AX | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Permitted (planning permission granted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Part of | Little Crow Solar Park (matched by planning reference) | Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 5 Apr 2022 (permit EN010101, Planning Act 2008 development consent, issued by The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 4 Dec 2020 (ref. EN010101, The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 5 Apr 2022 (granted, ref. EN010101, The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | INRG Solar | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 150 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 | 53.5773, -0.6155 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Little Crow Solar Park is the 219th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 349th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 150 MW is <0.1% of the 300,661 MW of power plants planned, permitted or under construction we hold for the United Kingdom. It is not built yet, so it is ranked among the power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data, apart from the ones running today. Ranks and totals cover the ones that report their capacity.
| Within | Rank | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 219th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 349th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 998th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 422 grid connections (180 operating, 2,604 MW), 167 substations, 2 transmission lines and 1 CO2 emitter, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scunthorpe South | Substation | — | — | 0.5 km |
| Solar 1 MW grid connection at Station Road | Grid connection | 1 MW | Operating | 0.8 km |
| Firth Brown | Substation | — | — | 1.8 km |
| Station Road | Substation | — | — | 2.2 km |
| Solar 34.295 MW grid connection at Raventhorpe Solar | Grid connection | 34.3 MW | Operating | 2.5 km |
| Solar 35 MW grid connection at Sweeting Thorns Solar | Grid connection | 35 MW | Operating | 2.8 km |
| North Humber to High Marnham | Transmission line | — | Planned | 21 km |
| Continental Link Multi-Purpose Interconnector | Transmission line | — | Cancelled | 28 km |
| Aldbrough Hydrogen Storage | CO2 emitter | — | Planned | 44 km |
Operator and place
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- Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind Farm1,500 MW
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- Hornsea 1 - Heron & Njord1,218 MW
- Atlantic Array One - Bristol Channel Zone1,200 MW
- Five Estuaries - Wind Farm1,080 MW
- Rugeley Power Plant Conversion1,000 MW
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Data on this page
- DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD). 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.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
- Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Rare Context entity resolution. Rare Context entity resolution, CC0 1.0.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.