Power plant · Bath and North East Somerset, England, United Kingdom
Stowey Road, Stowey - Solar Farm
Stowey Road, Stowey - Solar Farm is a permitted solar power plant in Bath and North East Somerset, England, United Kingdom, with 49.9 MW of capacity, operated by Regener8 Power Limited.
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 | Bath and North East Somerset (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Parcel 4642, Stowey Road, Stowey, BS39 4DN | 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 | 24 Jul 2025 (permit 24/04156/EFUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Bath and North East Somerset) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 4 Nov 2024 (reference 24/04156/EFUL, planning authority Bath and North East Somerset) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 24 Jul 2025 (granted, reference 24/04156/EFUL, planning authority Bath and North East Somerset) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Regener8 Power Limited (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 49.9 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 | 58.2 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.3421, -2.5777 | 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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- Permit granted (planning authority Bath and North East Somerset, reference 24/04156/EFUL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Bath and North East Somerset, reference 24/04156/EFUL)
How it compares
Stowey Road, Stowey - Solar Farm is the 454th-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 800th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 49.9 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 | 454th of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 800th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 1,897th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 113 grid connections (69 operating, 644 MW), 49 substations, 9 data centers, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hinkley Point C Connection | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 14 km |
| Homewood Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 1 MW | Planned | 18 km |
| Hinkley Point C Connection Project Material Change | Transmission line | — | Planned | 18 km |
| University of Bristol Isambard-AI | AI supercomputer | 5,448 H100e | Operating | 19 km |
| Holwell Primary | Substation | — | — | 20 km |
| Bradford-On-Avon Primary | Substation | — | — | 21 km |
| Holwell PV grid connection | Grid connection | 3.55 MW | Operating | 21 km |
| Landmark Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 5.5 MW | Planned | 22 km |
| nLighten Bristol | Data center | — | — | 22 km |
Operator and place
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Other power plants in England
- Drax Power Station Biomass Units2,580 MW
- Ratcliffe-on-Soar2,021 MW
- 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.
- 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.