Power plant · Thurrock, England, United Kingdom

Ockendon Landfill Solar Farm

Ockendon Landfill Solar Farm is a power plant in Thurrock, England, United Kingdom, with 38 MW of capacity, operated by NTR Plc.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Thurrock (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	South Ockendon Quarry And Landfill Site Medebridge Road South Ockendon Essex, RM15 6SL	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating (operational)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	2023	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	22 Jan 2016 (permit 14/00836/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Thurrock)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	29 Jul 2014 (reference 14/00836/FUL, planning authority Thurrock)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	22 Jan 2016 (granted, reference 14/00836/FUL, planning authority Thurrock)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	NTR Plc	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	38 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	98.4 ha (solar site area)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	51.5266, 0.3225	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Latest events

Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.

1 Sept 2023Commissioned
22 Jan 2016Permit granted (planning authority Thurrock, reference 14/00836/FUL)
29 Jul 2014Permit applied for (planning authority Thurrock, reference 14/00836/FUL)

How it compares

Ockendon Landfill Solar Farm is the 335th-largest of 3,430 power plants in England and the 613th-largest of 5,050 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 38 MW is <0.1% of the 115,622 MW we hold for the United Kingdom. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
England	335th of 3,430	71,965 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	613th of 5,050	115,622 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	2,387th of 12,032	1,190,447 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.

2023Started operating

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 78 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 27 substations, 4 grid connections (2 operating, 9.14 MW), 1 transmission line 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
Fujitsu Data Centre	Data center	—	—	6.2 km
CustodianDC DA2	Data center	—	—	9.3 km
NTT London 1	Data center	—	—	10 km
Solar 6.935 MW grid connection at Maiden Newton	Grid connection	6.94 MW	Operating	18 km
North London (Electricity Line) Reinforcement	Transmission line	—	Permitted	27 km
Tertiary Study grid connection	Grid connection	57 MW	Planned	29 km
NVIDIA Cambridge-1	AI supercomputer	202 H100e	Operating	30 km
Ariel Way White City London grid connection	Grid connection	2.2 MW	Operating	38 km
Volt Avenue Primary	Substation	—	—	40 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.
Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, CC BY 4.0.
JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), CC BY 4.0.
Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages. Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages, Facts only, each linked to its page.
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.