Power plant · South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Perrinpit Farm
Perrinpit Farm is a power plant under construction in South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, with 49.9 MW of capacity, operated by Grune Energien.
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 Gloucestershire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Land At Perrinpit Farm, Perrinpit Road, Frampton Cotterell, Bristol, Avon, BS36 2AT | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Under construction | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 21 Sept 2022 (permit P21/01624/F, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by South Gloucestershire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 12 Mar 2021 (reference P21/01624/F, planning authority South Gloucestershire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 21 Sept 2022 (granted, reference P21/01624/F, planning authority South Gloucestershire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Grune Energien | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 49.9 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 | 90 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.5457, -2.4942 | 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.
Request researchLatest events
Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Construction started
- Permit granted (planning authority South Gloucestershire, reference P21/01624/F)
- Permit applied for (planning authority South Gloucestershire, reference P21/01624/F)
How it compares
Perrinpit Farm is the 455th-largest of 1,651 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 801st-largest of 2,549 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 49.9 MW is <0.1% of the 279,978 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 | 455th of 1,651 | 172,174 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 801st of 2,549 | 279,978 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 1,881st of 5,782 | 643,557 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 111 grid connections (68 operating, 864 MW), 46 substations, 12 data centers, 2 transmission lines 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Bristol Isambard-AI | AI supercomputer | 5,448 H100e | Operating | 5.4 km |
| nLighten Bristol | Data center | — | — | 6.1 km |
| Alderton Primary | Substation | — | — | 19 km |
| Castle Combe PV grid connection | Grid connection | 11.4 MW | Operating | 20 km |
| Yatton Keynell Primary | Substation | — | — | 23 km |
| 40MW grid connection | Grid connection | 40 MW | Planned | 23 km |
| Spring Quarry West Primary | Substation | — | — | 23 km |
| PV ICP grid connection | Grid connection | 10.5 MW | Operating | 24 km |
| Ark Data Centres | Data center | — | — | 24 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.
- 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.