Power plant · County Durham, England, United Kingdom
Seaham Solar Park, Stockton Road - Solar Farm
Seaham Solar Park, Stockton Road - Solar Farm is a planned power plant in County Durham, England, United Kingdom, with 48 MW of capacity, operated by Elements Green.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | County Durham (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | E/O Stockton Road, Seaham, SR7 0PA | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned (planning application submitted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 25 Feb 2025 (reference DM/25/00287/FPA, planning authority County Durham) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Elements Green | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 48 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 | 81.6 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 54.8572, -1.3624 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit applied for (planning authority County Durham, reference DM/25/00287/FPA)
How it compares
Seaham Solar Park, Stockton Road - Solar Farm is the 791st-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,257th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 48 MW is <0.1% of the 300,461 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 | 791st of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,257th of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 2,361st of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 282 grid connections (144 operating, 1,698 MW), 164 substations and 5 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seaham Grange Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 36 MW | Planned | 0.3 km |
| Tunstall | Substation | — | — | 2.7 km |
| Wind 6 MW grid connection at Hawthorn Pit | Grid connection | 6 MW | Operating | 3.4 km |
| Solar 8 MW grid connection at Stoney Cut | Grid connection | 8 MW | Planned | 4.0 km |
| Stoney Cut | Substation | — | — | 4.6 km |
| Mount Road | Substation | — | — | 5.0 km |
| Stellium Newcastle Campus | Data center | — | — | 20 km |
| DXC Wynyard Data Center | Data center | — | — | 25 km |
| Lumen Technologies data center, Middlesbrough | Data center | — | — | 32 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.
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- 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.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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