Power plant · Sefton, England, United Kingdom
North Moss Lane - Solar Photovoltaic Farm
North Moss Lane - Solar Photovoltaic Farm is a permitted power plant in Sefton, England, United Kingdom, with 9 MW of capacity, operated by Taiyo Power & Storage 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 | Sefton (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | North Moss Farm, North Moss Lane, Liverpool, L37 0AQ | 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 Aug 2025 (permit DC/2025/00299, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Sefton) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 25 Feb 2025 (ref. DC/2025/00299, Sefton) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 7 Aug 2025 (granted, ref. DC/2025/00299, Sefton) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Taiyo Power & Storage Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 9 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 | 14.6 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.5728, -3.0342 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
North Moss Lane - Solar Photovoltaic Farm is the 1,513th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,343rd-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 9 MW is <0.1% of the 300,661 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 | 1,513th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,343rd of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,437th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 216 grid connections (129 operating, 1,170 MW), 2 transmission lines and 1 CO2 emitter, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 6, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Landsdale Nurseries grid connection | Grid connection | 6 MW | Operating | 7.4 km |
| Bickerstaffe WTW grid connection | Grid connection | 1.25 MW | Operating | 12 km |
| Halsalls Lodge grid connection | Grid connection | 119 MW | Planned | 14 km |
| Morgan and Morecambe Offshore Wind Farms Transmission Assets | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 22 km |
| Preesall Saltfield Underground Gas Storage | CO2 emitter | — | Cancelled | 37 km |
| East Irish Sea Transmission Project | Transmission line | — | Planned | 39 km |
Operator and place
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Data on this page
- DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD). 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.
- SP Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects. 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.