Power plant · North Somerset, England, United Kingdom
Sandbay, Elmsley Lane, Kewstoke - Solar Farm
Sandbay, Elmsley Lane, Kewstoke - Solar Farm is a permitted power plant in North Somerset, England, United Kingdom, with 24.5 MW of capacity, operated by Solar Southwest.
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 | North Somerset (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Elmsley Lane Kewstoke, BS22 9YT | 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 | 3 Oct 2024 (permit 22/P/3036/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by North Somerset) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 14 Feb 2023 (reference 22/P/3036/FUL, planning authority North Somerset) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 3 Oct 2024 (granted, reference 22/P/3036/FUL, planning authority North Somerset) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Solar Southwest | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 24.5 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 | 27 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.3743, -2.9444 | 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.
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Sandbay, Elmsley Lane, Kewstoke - Solar Farm is the 1,149th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,798th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 24.5 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 | 1,149th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,798th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 3,449th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 27 grid connections (14 operating, 70.6 MW), 9 data centers, 8 substations, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Insight Data Ltd | Data center | — | — | 3.0 km |
| Hinkley Point C Connection Project Material Change | Transmission line | — | Planned | 8.2 km |
| Hinkley Point C Connection | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 13 km |
| Tata Communications Highbridge Datacentre | Data center | — | — | 16 km |
| Microsoft Newport data centre | Data center | — | — | 21 km |
| University of Bristol Isambard-AI | AI supercomputer | 5,448 H100e | Operating | 35 km |
| Holwell Primary | Substation | — | — | 43 km |
| Landmark Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 5.5 MW | Planned | 43 km |
| Wyke Farms Ltd grid connection | Grid connection | 1.9 MW | Operating | 43 km |
Operator and place
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.