Power plant · Bassetlaw, England, United Kingdom

Little Morton Solar Farm

Little Morton Solar Farm is a power plant in Bassetlaw, England, United Kingdom, with 14.3 MW of capacity, operated by Lightsource Renewable Energy.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Bassetlaw (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Coal Board Area N 7 35 South Of Mansfield Road Morton Nottinghamshire	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	2014	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	9 Jan 2014 (permit 13/01113/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Bassetlaw)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	23 Sept 2013 (reference 13/01113/FUL, planning authority Bassetlaw)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	9 Jan 2014 (granted, reference 13/01113/FUL, planning authority Bassetlaw)	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	14.3 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	27.4 ha (solar site area)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	53.3047, -0.9901	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.

31 Mar 2014Commissioned
9 Jan 2014Permit granted (planning authority Bassetlaw, reference 13/01113/FUL)
23 Sept 2013Permit applied for (planning authority Bassetlaw, reference 13/01113/FUL)

How it compares

Little Morton Solar Farm is the 831st-largest of 3,430 power plants in England and the 1,481st-largest of 5,050 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 14.3 MW is <0.1% of the 115,622 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	831st of 3,430	71,965 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	1,481st of 5,050	115,622 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	5,429th of 12,032	1,190,447 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

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2014Started operating

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 229 grid connections (115 operating, 1,478 MW), 164 substations, 7 data centers 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
Costhorpe	Substation	—	—	12 km
Harworth	Substation	—	—	13 km
Newton on Trent Water Works grid connection	Grid connection	3.1 MW	Operating	16 km
Hall Water Treatment Works grid connection	Grid connection	1.6 MW	Operating	17 km
Gas 8 MW grid connection at Dinnington	Grid connection	8 MW	Operating	17 km
Austerfield	Substation	—	—	17 km
North Humber to High Marnham	Transmission line	—	Planned	19 km
Thales	Data center	—	—	24 km
Digital Space DC - Newark	Data center	—	—	28 km

Operator and place

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Data on this page

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.
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.