Power plant · Cotswold, England, United Kingdom
Siddington Solar Farm
Siddington Solar Farm is a power plant under construction in Cotswold, England, United Kingdom, with 19.9 MW of capacity, operated by Gresham House and Anesco.
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 | Cotswold (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | E/O Ashton Road, GL7 6HR | 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 May 2021 (permit 20/04499/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Cotswold) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 23 Dec 2020 (reference 20/04499/FUL, planning authority Cotswold) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 21 May 2021 (granted, reference 20/04499/FUL, planning authority Cotswold) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Gresham House (Gresham House / Anesco Limited) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Anesco (Gresham House / Anesco Limited) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 19.9 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 | 73.7 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.6910, -1.9501 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Siddington Solar Farm is the 1,278th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,997th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 19.9 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 | 1,278th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,997th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 4,037th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 279 grid connections (94 operating, 1,167 MW), 100 substations and 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brookfield Farm PV & Battery grid connection | Grid connection | 1 MW | Planned | 1.0 km |
| Siddington PV grid connection | Grid connection | 15.2 MW | Operating | 1.3 km |
| Cirencester BSP | Substation | — | — | 1.5 km |
| Cirencester Town Primary | Substation | — | — | 1.9 km |
| Cirencester Solar Park grid connection | Grid connection | 25 MW | Planned | 3.3 km |
| Whiteway Primary | Substation | — | — | 4.2 km |
| Nationwide Swindon Technology Centre | Data center | — | — | 15 km |
| Vodafone | Data center | — | — | 17 km |
| nLighten Swindon | Data center | — | — | 18 km |
Operators and place
Grid connections attached to this power plant
More from Gresham House
- Cockenzie Battery Storage System - Site A240 MW · permitted
- Cockenzie Battery Storage System - Site B102 MW · permitted
- Harburnhead Wind Farm51.7 MW
- Glassenbury - Battery Storage System50 MW · permitted
- West Didsbury Battery Storage50 MW
- Enderby Storage, Redcomb Farm49.9 MW
- Low Farm Solar Farm49.9 MW · under construction
- Pleasance Road - Battery Energy Facility49.9 MW
Other power plants in England
- Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
- Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind Farm1,500 MW
- Hornsea 2 - Optimus and Breesea1,320 MW
- Hornsea 1 - Heron & Njord1,218 MW
- Atlantic Array One - Bristol Channel Zone1,200 MW
- Five Estuaries - Wind Farm1,080 MW
- Rugeley Power Plant Conversion1,000 MW
- Teesworks Battery Storage Project1,000 MW
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.
- 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.
- Rare Context entity resolution. Rare Context entity resolution, CC0 1.0.
- 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.