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 90 MW of capacity, operated by INRG Solar.
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 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 1XP | 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 (reference EN010101, planning authority 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, reference EN010101, planning authority 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 | 90 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 | 53.5978, -0.5912 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Little Crow Solar Park is the 337th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 555th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 90 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 | 337th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 555th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 1,475th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 419 grid connections (179 operating, 2,582 MW), 166 substations, 2 transmission lines, 1 data center and 1 gas storage facility, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santon | Substation | — | — | 0.3 km |
| Firth Brown | Substation | — | — | 1.7 km |
| Battery storage and Solar 199.8 MW grid connection at Santon Solar Farm Direct | Grid connection | 200 MW | Planned | 2.7 km |
| Battery storage 80 MW grid connection at Vox Winterton BESS Direct | Grid connection | 80 MW | Planned | 3.1 km |
| Scunthorpe South | Substation | — | — | 3.2 km |
| Solar 20 MW grid connection at Winterton Road PV | Grid connection | 20 MW | Planned | 3.4 km |
| North Humber to High Marnham | Transmission line | — | Planned | 24 km |
| Continental Link Multi-Purpose Interconnector | Transmission line | — | Cancelled | 25 km |
| Thales | Data center | — | — | 36 km |
Operator and place
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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.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- 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.