Power plant · Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Swindon Energy Plant (Park Grounds)
Swindon Energy Plant (Park Grounds) is a power plant under construction in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, with 6 MW of capacity, operated by Advanced Biofuel Solutions.
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 | Wiltshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Crapper and Sons Landfill Ltd, Brinkworth Road, Royal Wootton Bassett, Park Grounds, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN4 8DW | 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 | 15 Jun 2017 (permit 17/03547/WCM, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Wiltshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 7 Apr 2017 (reference 17/03547/WCM, planning authority Wiltshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 15 Jun 2017 (granted, reference 17/03547/WCM, planning authority Wiltshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Advanced Biofuel Solutions (Advanced Biofuel Solutions (formerly Crapper and Sons Landfill)) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 6 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Advanced Conversion Technologies | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.5552, -1.9248 | 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.
Request researchLatest events
Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Construction started
- Permit granted (planning authority Wiltshire, reference 17/03547/WCM)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Wiltshire, reference 17/03547/WCM)
How it compares
Swindon Energy Plant (Park Grounds) is the 1,576th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,433rd-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 6 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 | 1,576th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,433rd of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,556th of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 188 grid connections (108 operating, 1,235 MW), 114 substations, 10 data centers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Park Grounds grid connection | Grid connection | 5.7 MW | Operating | 0.2 km |
| Flaxlands Manor Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 115 MW | Planned | 1.7 km |
| Wootton Bassett Primary | Substation | — | — | 3.7 km |
| Wickfield Farm PV grid connection | Grid connection | 3.8 MW | Operating | 3.8 km |
| Galileo Primary | Substation | — | — | 5.3 km |
| Vodafone | Data center | — | — | 5.4 km |
| Nationwide Swindon Technology Centre | Data center | — | — | 6.4 km |
| Lyneham Primary | Substation | — | — | 6.9 km |
| AWS Swindon Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 12 km |
Operator and place
Grid connections attached to this power plant
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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.
- 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.
- 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.