Power plant · Broxbourne, England, United Kingdom
St Marys C Of E Va High School, Lieutenant Ellis Way - Solar Panels
St Marys C Of E Va High School, Lieutenant Ellis Way - Solar Panels is a permitted solar power plant in Broxbourne, England, United Kingdom, with 8.8 MW of capacity, operated by eEnergy.
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 | Broxbourne (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | St Marys C Of E Va High School, Lieutenant Ellis Way, Waltham Cross, EN7 5FB | 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 | 1 Jul 2025 (permit 07/25/0392/PNPV, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Broxbourne) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 6 May 2025 (reference 07/25/0392/PNPV, planning authority Broxbourne) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 1 Jul 2025 (granted, reference 07/25/0392/PNPV, planning authority Broxbourne) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | eEnergy (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 8.8 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 |
| Coordinates | 51.6967, -0.0516 | 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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Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Permit granted (planning authority Broxbourne, reference 07/25/0392/PNPV)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Broxbourne, reference 07/25/0392/PNPV)
How it compares
St Marys C Of E Va High School, Lieutenant Ellis Way - Solar Panels is the 1,214th-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,950th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 8.8 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 | 1,214th of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,950th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,067th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 128 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 78 substations, 36 grid connections (21 operating, 226 MW), 1 transmission line 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Datacentre Waltham Cross | Data center | — | — | 0.2 km |
| Google Waltham Cross | Data center | 88 MW | Operating | 0.2 km |
| Virtus LONDON1 | Data center | — | — | 5.0 km |
| North London (Electricity Line) Reinforcement | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 10 km |
| NVIDIA Cambridge-1 | AI supercomputer | 202 H100e | Operating | 15 km |
| Tertiary Study grid connection | Grid connection | 57 MW | Planned | 20 km |
| Willesden GSP | Substation | — | — | 23 km |
| Canal Bank 11kV Primary | Substation | — | — | 23 km |
| Canal Bank 6.6kV Primary | Substation | — | — | 23 km |
Operator and place
Other power plants in England
- Drax Power Station Biomass Units2,580 MW
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- 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.
- Epoch AI. Epoch AI data centers, 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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.