Power plant · Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Minety Substation
Minety Substation is a permitted power plant in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, with 10 MW of capacity, operated by JBM Solar Project.
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 | Land Near Minety Substation, Stonehill, Charlton, Malmesbury, SN16 9DX | 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 | 7 Apr 2022 (permit 20/03528/FUL, 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 | 27 Apr 2020 (reference 20/03528/FUL, planning authority Wiltshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 7 Apr 2022 (granted, reference 20/03528/FUL, planning authority Wiltshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | JBM Solar Project | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 10 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 | 51.6019, -2.0046 | 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 20/03528/FUL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Wiltshire, reference 20/03528/FUL)
How it compares
Minety Substation is the 1,441st-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,237th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 10 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 | 1,441st of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,237th of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,307th of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 161 grid connections (95 operating, 1,168 MW), 93 substations, 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melk 50MW Battery grid connection | Grid connection | 50 MW | Planned | 0.1 km |
| Stonehill grid connection | Grid connection | 150 MW | Planned | 0.2 km |
| Minety GSP | Substation | — | — | 0.7 km |
| Purlieus Battery Storage grid connection | Grid connection | 49.9 MW | Operating | 1.5 km |
| Minety Village Primary | Substation | — | — | 3.3 km |
| Malmesbury Primary | Substation | — | — | 7.7 km |
| Nationwide Swindon Technology Centre | Data center | — | — | 12 km |
| Vodafone | Data center | — | — | 12 km |
| AWS Swindon Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 19 km |
Operator and place
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- Minety Substation40 MW · permitted
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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.
- 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.