Power plant · Bath and North East Somerset, England, United Kingdom
Marksbury Plain - Solar Park
Marksbury Plain - Solar Park is a cancelled solar power plant in Bath and North East Somerset, England, United Kingdom, with 15 MW of capacity, operated by Renewable Connections Developments Limited.
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 | Bath and North East Somerset (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Parcel 6536 Top Lane, Farmborough, Bath, BA2 0EG | 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 | 1 Jul 2022 (permit 21/04881/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Bath and North East Somerset) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 14 Jan 2022 (reference 21/04881/FUL, planning authority Bath and North East Somerset) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 1 Jul 2022 (granted, reference 21/04881/FUL, planning authority Bath and North East Somerset) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Renewable Connections Developments Limited (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 15 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 | 31.1 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.3508, -2.4911 | 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 Bath and North East Somerset, reference 21/04881/FUL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Bath and North East Somerset, reference 21/04881/FUL)
How it compares
Marksbury Plain - Solar Park is the 1,117th-largest of 4,036 power plants in England and the 1,842nd-largest of 5,837 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 15 MW is <0.1% of the 200,833 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 | 1,117th of 4,036 | 134,406 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,842nd of 5,837 | 200,833 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants in our data | 5,781st of 13,028 | 1,354,089 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 125 grid connections (79 operating, 835 MW), 56 substations, 10 data centers, 2 transmission lines 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homewood Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 1 MW | Planned | 12 km |
| Bradford-On-Avon Primary | Substation | — | — | 15 km |
| University of Bristol Isambard-AI | AI supercomputer | 5,448 H100e | Operating | 16 km |
| 25MW PV Trowbridge Solar grid connection | Grid connection | 26.6 MW | Planned | 17 km |
| Monkley Lane grid connection | Grid connection | 55.9 MW | Planned | 18 km |
| Holwell Primary | Substation | — | — | 18 km |
| Frome BSP | Substation | — | — | 19 km |
| Hinkley Point C Connection | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 20 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 996865179) | Data center | — | — | 20 km |
Operator and place
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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. DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- 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.
- Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, CC BY 4.0.
- 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.
- © 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.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.