Power plant · Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Malmesbury Road Solar Farm
Malmesbury Road Solar Farm is a permitted power plant in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, with 13 MW of capacity, operated by Wessex Solar Energy.
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 | Wiltshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Windmill Farm, Common Hill, Cricklade, Swindon, SN6 6HA | 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 |
| Permit date | 26 Oct 2023 (permit PL/2021/09153, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Wiltshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 23 Sept 2021 (reference PL/2021/09153, planning authority Wiltshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 26 Oct 2023 (granted, reference PL/2021/09153, planning authority Wiltshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Wessex Solar Energy | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 13 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 | 19.8 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.6393, -1.8758 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this power plant and its operator.Who owns it up to the parent company, its grid connection and planning status, and an introduction to the operator.
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Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Permit granted (planning authority Wiltshire, reference PL/2021/09153)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Wiltshire, reference PL/2021/09153)
How it compares
Malmesbury Road Solar Farm is the 1,394th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,171st-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 13 MW is <0.1% of the 300,461 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 | 1,394th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,171st of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 4,852nd of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 177 grid connections (96 operating, 1,179 MW), 117 substations, 12 data centers and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Land at Windmill Farm - Solar grid connection | Grid connection | 13 MW | Planned | 0.2 km |
| Cricklade Primary | Substation | — | — | 0.7 km |
| Bentham Solar Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 8.27 MW | Operating | 3.7 km |
| Down Ampney Airfield Quarry grid connection | Grid connection | 2.45 MW | Planned | 3.7 km |
| Minety Village Primary | Substation | — | — | 7.2 km |
| Swindon BSP | Substation | — | — | 7.4 km |
| Nationwide Swindon Technology Centre | Data center | — | — | 7.9 km |
| Vodafone | Data center | — | — | 10.0 km |
| nLighten Swindon | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
Operator and place
Grid connections attached to this power plant
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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.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. 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.
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