Power plant · West Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
Motorway Service Area, Burghfield - Solar Farm
Motorway Service Area, Burghfield - Solar Farm is a permitted solar power plant in West Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, with 5 MW of capacity, operated by Moto Hospitality 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 | West Berkshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Motorway Service Area, Reading Services Eastbound, Burghfield, Reading, RG30 3UQ | 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 | 19 Sept 2025 (permit 24/02801/FULMAJ, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by West Berkshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 28 Mar 2025 (reference 24/02801/FULMAJ, planning authority West Berkshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 19 Sept 2025 (granted, reference 24/02801/FULMAJ, planning authority West Berkshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Moto Hospitality Limited (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 5 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 | 3.78 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.4265, -1.0320 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit granted (planning authority West Berkshire, reference 24/02801/FULMAJ)
- Permit applied for (planning authority West Berkshire, reference 24/02801/FULMAJ)
How it compares
Motorway Service Area, Burghfield - Solar Farm is the 1,280th-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,046th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 5 MW is <0.1% of the 278,868 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 | 1,280th of 1,650 | 171,064 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,046th of 2,548 | 278,868 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,196th of 5,799 | 656,876 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 242 substations, 211 grid connections (105 operating, 1,143 MW) and 84 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southcote Holybrook grid connection | Grid connection | 5 MW | Planned | 1.2 km |
| Advanced Fuel Gasification OR Pyrolysis 11.8 MW grid connection at Trash Green | Grid connection | 11.8 MW | Planned | 1.4 km |
| Southcote Primary | Substation | — | — | 1.4 km |
| Burghfield Substation grid connection | Grid connection | 47.4 MW | Operating | 1.8 km |
| Trash Green Primary | Substation | — | — | 1.8 km |
| Burghfield (Main) BSP | Substation | — | — | 2.0 km |
| Pulsant Reading SL3 | Data center | — | — | 3.7 km |
| Redcentric Reading | Data center | — | — | 4.0 km |
| Asanti - Reading | Data center | — | — | 4.2 km |
Operator and place
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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.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.