Power plant · Basildon, England, United Kingdom

Marsh Farm (Farm AD)

Marsh Farm (Farm AD) is a cancelled biomass power plant in Basildon, England, United Kingdom, with 1.4 MW of capacity.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Basildon (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Cancelled (planning application withdrawn)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	25 Sept 2013 (reference 13/00963/CC, planning authority Basildon)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	13 Nov 2013 (withdrawn, reference 13/00963/CC, planning authority Basildon)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	1.4 MW	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Anaerobic Digestion	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	51.5527, 0.4797	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.

13 Nov 2013Withdrawn (planning authority Basildon, reference 13/00963/CC)
25 Sept 2013Permit applied for (planning authority Basildon, reference 13/00963/CC)

How it compares

Marsh Farm (Farm AD) is the 3,682nd-largest of 4,035 power plants in England and the 5,376th-largest of 5,834 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1.4 MW is <0.1% of the 200,500 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	3,682nd of 4,035	134,434 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	5,376th of 5,834	200,500 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	14,979th of 15,799	1,918,113 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 57 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 2 grid connections (1 operating, 2.2 MW), 1 AI supercomputer and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 7, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Imperium 315	Data center	—	—	3.8 km
CityFibre Cabinets	Data center	—	—	12 km
Fujitsu Data Centre	Data center	—	—	17 km
NVIDIA Cambridge-1	AI supercomputer	202 H100e	Operating	34 km
North London (Electricity Line) Reinforcement	Transmission line	—	Permitted	37 km
Tertiary Study grid connection	Grid connection	57 MW	Planned	40 km
Ariel Way White City London grid connection	Grid connection	2.2 MW	Operating	49 km

Place

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Cottam2,000 MW
Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
West Burton2,000 MW
Eggborough1,960 MW
Staythorpe1,828 MW
Fiddler’s Ferry1,510 MW

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