Power plant · Wealden, England, United Kingdom
Lower Mays Farm Solar Farm
Lower Mays Farm Solar Farm is a cancelled battery storage plant in Wealden, England, United Kingdom, with 8.8 MW of capacity.
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 | Wealden (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Cancelled (planning permission granted, permission expired) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 15 Jul 2021 (permit WD/2021/0671/MAJ, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Wealden) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 1 Apr 2021 (reference WD/2021/0671/MAJ, planning authority Wealden) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 15 Jul 2021 (granted, reference WD/2021/0671/MAJ, planning authority Wealden) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 8.8 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 | 50.8621, 0.1479 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this power plant and its owner.Who owns it up to the parent company, its grid connection and planning status, and an introduction to the owner.
Latest events
Dated events about this power plant from official notices, registers and owners' press releases, newest first. All recent changes.
- Permit granted (planning authority Wealden, reference WD/2021/0671/MAJ)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Wealden, reference WD/2021/0671/MAJ)
How it compares
Lower Mays Farm Solar Farm was cancelled before it was built: it is not ranked among the power plants that run, and its 8.8 MW is not counted in their totals.
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 125 substations, 103 grid connections (61 operating, 962 MW) and 9 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ripe 11kV | Substation | — | — | 0.7 km |
| Ripe PV grid connection | Grid connection | 7 MW | Operating | 1.5 km |
| Batbrooks Farm Arlington grid connection | Grid connection | 10 MW | Operating | 2.2 km |
| Colbrans Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 39.9 MW | Planned | 4.2 km |
| Horsebridge 11kV | Substation | — | — | 6.8 km |
| Hailsham 11kV | Substation | — | — | 6.8 km |
| Goldman Sachs data center, East Grinstead | Data center | — | — | 33 km |
| Digital Realty LGW15 | Data center | — | — | 37 km |
| Digital Realty LGW16 | Data center | — | — | 37 km |
Place
Other power plants in England
- Drax Power Station Biomass Units2,580 MW
- Ratcliffe-on-Soar2,021 MW
- Cottam2,000 MW
- Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
- West Burton2,000 MW
- Eggborough1,960 MW
- Staythorpe1,828 MW
- Fiddler’s Ferry1,510 MW
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.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- UK Power Networks. UK Power Networks open data portal, CC BY 4.0.