Power plant · Epping Forest, England, United Kingdom
Nickerlands Solar Farm - Solar Farm
Nickerlands Solar Farm - Solar Farm is a permitted solar power plant in Epping Forest, England, United Kingdom, with 25 MW of capacity, operated by AR Toot Hill 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 | Epping Forest (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Nickerlands, Berwick Lane, Stanford Rivers, CM5 9PX | 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 | 20 Feb 2025 (permit EPF/1546/24, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Epping Forest) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 2 Aug 2024 (reference EPF/1546/24, planning authority Epping Forest) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 20 Feb 2025 (granted, reference EPF/1546/24, planning authority Epping Forest) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | AR Toot Hill Limited (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 25 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 | 26.4 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.6853, 0.1989 | 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 Epping Forest, reference EPF/1546/24)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Epping Forest, reference EPF/1546/24)
How it compares
Nickerlands Solar Farm - Solar Farm is the 901st-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,465th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 25 MW is <0.1% of the 279,068 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 | 901st of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,465th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 3,118th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 91 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 36 substations, 5 grid connections (2 operating, 11.7 MW), 1 AI supercomputer and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA Cambridge-1 | AI supercomputer | 202 H100e | Operating | 10 km |
| Kao Data KLON-01 | Data center | — | — | 10 km |
| Kao Data KLON-02 | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
| NTT London 1 | Data center | — | — | 15 km |
| North London (Electricity Line) Reinforcement | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 19 km |
| Tertiary Study grid connection | Grid connection | 57 MW | Planned | 27 km |
| Ariel Way White City London grid connection | Grid connection | 2.2 MW | Operating | 35 km |
| Willesden GSP | Substation | — | — | 36 km |
| Volt Avenue Primary | Substation | — | — | 36 km |
Operator and place
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. 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.
- 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.