Power plant · Maldon, England, United Kingdom
Prentice’s Farm- Solar Farm
Prentice’s Farm- Solar Farm is a permitted solar power plant in Maldon, England, United Kingdom, with 21 MW of capacity, operated by Anglo Renewables.
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 | Maldon (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Sw/O The Warren, Hackmans Lane, Purleigh, Chelmsford, CM3 6RJ | 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 | 6 Sept 2024 (permit 24/00366/FULM, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Maldon) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 24 Apr 2024 (reference 24/00366/FULM, planning authority Maldon) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 6 Sept 2024 (granted, reference 24/00366/FULM, planning authority Maldon) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Anglo Renewables (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 21 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 | 33.2 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.6899, 0.6289 | 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.
- Permit granted (planning authority Maldon, reference 24/00366/FULM)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Maldon, reference 24/00366/FULM)
How it compares
Prentice’s Farm- Solar Farm is the 965th-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,558th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 21 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 | 965th of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,558th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 3,417th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 39 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 2 transmission lines and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 6, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CityFibre Cabinets | Data center | — | — | 13 km |
| Imperium 315 | Data center | — | — | 15 km |
| Fujitsu Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 34 km |
| NVIDIA Cambridge-1 | AI supercomputer | 202 H100e | Operating | 35 km |
| Bramford to Twinstead | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 39 km |
| North London (Electricity Line) Reinforcement | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 48 km |
Operator and place
More from Anglo Renewables
- Lowlands Farm - Battery Storage50 MW · permitted
- Penstone Lane, Penn 1 - Battery Storage Facility50 MW
- Penstone Lane, Lower Penn 2 - Battery Storage50 MW
- Says Court Farm, Coalpit Heath - Battery Energy Storage50 MW
- Levedale Road, Levedale - Battery Energy Storage50 MW · permitted
- Larks Lane & Latteridge Lane, Latteridge - Battery Storage Facility49.9 MW · permitted
- Whites Farm - Battery Storage49.9 MW
- Weston Lane - Battery Storage Facility49.9 MW
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.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.