Power plant · Burnley, England, United Kingdom
Safran Nacelles, Bancroft Road - Solar Panels
Safran Nacelles, Bancroft Road - Solar Panels is a permitted power plant in Burnley, England, United Kingdom, with 1.04 MW of capacity, operated by EDF Energy 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 | Burnley (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Safran Nacelles Limited, Bancroft Road, Burnley, BB10 2TQ | 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 | 30 Apr 2024 (permit FUL/2023/0395, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Burnley) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 25 Jan 2024 (reference FUL/2023/0395, planning authority Burnley) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 30 Apr 2024 (granted, reference FUL/2023/0395, planning authority Burnley) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | EDF Energy Renewables | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 1.04 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 | 1.8 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.8019, -2.2171 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Safran Nacelles, Bancroft Road - Solar Panels is the 2,071st-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 3,087th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1.04 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 | 2,071st of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 3,087th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 6,319th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 474 grid connections (264 operating, 2,178 MW), 177 substations, 18 data centers and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bancroft Generation grid connection | Grid connection | 21.1 MW | Operating | 0.2 km |
| Sweetmore Anacrome grid connection | Grid connection | 6 MW | Operating | 0.6 km |
| Rowley Landfill Site grid connection | Grid connection | 2.07 MW | Operating | 0.7 km |
| Salterforth | Substation | — | — | 12 km |
| Todmorden | Substation | — | — | 13 km |
| Barnoldswick | Substation | — | — | 14 km |
| Lloyds Banking Group Copley | Data center | — | — | 24 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 403124345) | Data center | — | — | 24 km |
| Redcentric Elland Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 29 km |
Operator and place
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- Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind Farm1,500 MW
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- Hornsea 1 - Heron & Njord1,218 MW
- Atlantic Array One - Bristol Channel Zone1,200 MW
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- Rugeley Power Plant Conversion1,000 MW
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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.
- Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- 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.