Power plant · South Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
Oaklands Solar Farm Project - Solar Farm & Battery Storage
Oaklands Solar Farm Project - Solar Farm & Battery Storage is a permitted power plant in South Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, with 37.5 MW of capacity, operated by Baywa R.E. UK 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 | South Derbyshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | W/O Rosliston & E/O Walton on Trent, Swadlincote, DE12 | 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 |
| Part of | Oaklands Farm Solar Park (matched by planning reference) | Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 19 Jun 2025 (permit EN010122, Planning Act 2008 development consent, issued by The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 8 Feb 2024 (reference EN010122, planning authority The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 19 Jun 2025 (granted, reference EN010122, planning authority The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Baywa R.E. UK Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 37.5 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 | 52.7512, -1.6579 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit granted: Oaklands Farm Solar Park (planning authority The Planning Inspectorate, reference EN010122) · source
- Permit granted (planning authority The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure, reference EN010122)
- Permit applied for (planning authority The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure, reference EN010122)
- Permit applied for: Oaklands Farm Solar Park (planning authority The Planning Inspectorate, reference EN010122) · source
How it compares
Oaklands Solar Farm Project - Solar Farm & Battery Storage is the 924th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,461st-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 37.5 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 | 924th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,461st of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 2,700th of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 8 data centers and 2 transmission lines, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 5, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data center, England (OSM way 710050084) | Data center | — | — | 30 km |
| Hutchison 3G | Data center | — | — | 34 km |
| Chesterfield to Willington | Transmission line | — | Planned | 34 km |
| EE Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 35 km |
| Weston Marsh to East Leicestershire | Transmission line | — | Planned | 47 km |
Operator and place
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- South Fambridge Hall - Solar farm & Battery storage50 MW · under construction
- Scurf Dyke - Solar Farm49.9 MW · permitted
- Corner Copse Solar Farm49.9 MW · under construction
- Rag Lane Solar Farm49.9 MW · permitted
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- Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
- Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind Farm1,500 MW
- Hornsea 2 - Optimus and Breesea1,320 MW
- Hornsea 1 - Heron & Njord1,218 MW
- Atlantic Array One - Bristol Channel Zone1,200 MW
- Five Estuaries - Wind Farm1,080 MW
- Rugeley Power Plant Conversion1,000 MW
- Teesworks Battery Storage Project1,000 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.
- 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.
- Rare Context entity resolution. Rare Context entity resolution, CC0 1.0.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.