Power plant · Thurrock, England, United Kingdom
Tesco, Cygnet View - Solar PV Arrays
Tesco, Cygnet View - Solar PV Arrays is a permitted power plant in Thurrock, England, United Kingdom, with 1.05 MW of capacity, operated by Tesco.
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 | Thurrock (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Tesco, Cygnet View, Lakeside, West Thurrock, Grays, RM20 1TX | 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 | 9 Mar 2026 (permit 25/01468/PASOND, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Thurrock) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 8 Jan 2026 (reference 25/01468/PASOND, planning authority Thurrock) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 9 Mar 2026 (granted, reference 25/01468/PASOND, planning authority Thurrock) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Tesco | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 1.05 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 | 51.4893, 0.2790 | 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 Thurrock, reference 25/01468/PASOND)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Thurrock, reference 25/01468/PASOND)
How it compares
Tesco, Cygnet View - Solar PV Arrays is the 2,069th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 3,083rd-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1.05 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 | 2,069th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 3,083rd of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 6,315th of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 87 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 35 substations, 5 grid connections (3 operating, 18.6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fujitsu Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 1.1 km |
| CustodianDC DA2 | Data center | — | — | 4.3 km |
| OVH data center, England | Data center | — | — | 7.8 km |
| Solar 6.935 MW grid connection at Maiden Newton | Grid connection | 6.94 MW | Operating | 14 km |
| Tertiary Study grid connection | Grid connection | 57 MW | Planned | 26 km |
| North London (Electricity Line) Reinforcement | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 26 km |
| NVIDIA Cambridge-1 | AI supercomputer | 202 H100e | Operating | 33 km |
| Ariel Way White City London grid connection | Grid connection | 2.2 MW | Operating | 35 km |
| Goldsmiths Primary | Substation | — | — | 37 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.
- 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.