Power plant · North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Middleton Lodge, Kneeton Lane - Solar Array
Middleton Lodge, Kneeton Lane - Solar Array is a planned solar power plant in North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, with 1.27 MW of capacity, operated by Middleton Lodge Estates 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 | North Yorkshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Middleton Lodge Kneeton Lane Middleton Tyas, DL10 6NJ | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned (planning application submitted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 5 Mar 2026 (reference ZD26/00094/FULL, planning authority North Yorkshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Middleton Lodge Estates Limited (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 1.27 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 | 1.7 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 54.4594, -1.6568 | 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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- Permit applied for (planning authority North Yorkshire, reference ZD26/00094/FULL)
How it compares
Middleton Lodge, Kneeton Lane - Solar Array is the 1,523rd-largest of 1,651 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,389th-largest of 2,549 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1.27 MW is <0.1% of the 279,978 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 | 1,523rd of 1,651 | 172,174 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,389th of 2,549 | 279,978 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,617th of 5,782 | 643,557 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 220 grid connections (110 operating, 1,241 MW), 102 substations and 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Land south of Skeeby Substation grid connection | Grid connection | 73.2 MW | Operating | 5.2 km |
| Land south of Skeeby Substation grid connection | Grid connection | 39 MW | Operating | 5.2 km |
| Solar 50 MW grid connection at Skeeby Solar | Grid connection | 50 MW | Planned | 5.2 km |
| Richmond T1 | Substation | — | — | 6.8 km |
| Richmond T2 | Substation | — | — | 6.8 km |
| Darlington West | Substation | — | — | 9.0 km |
| Pulsant data center, England | Data center | — | — | 24 km |
| DXC Wynyard Data Center | Data center | — | — | 30 km |
| Lumen Technologies data center, Middlesbrough | Data center | — | — | 30 km |
Operator and place
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- Staythorpe1,828 MW
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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.
- Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
- © 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.
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