Power plant · North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Tunstall & East Appleton Solar Farm - Solar Farm
Tunstall & East Appleton Solar Farm - Solar Farm is a planned power plant in North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, with 23.5 MW of capacity, operated by Enviromena.
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 | North Yorkshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | East Appleton Farm, East Appleton, Richmond, DL10 7QE | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned (planning application submitted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 24 Jun 2025 (reference ZD25/00369/FULL, planning authority North Yorkshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Enviromena | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 23.5 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 | 32.6 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 54.3579, -1.6344 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit applied for (planning authority North Yorkshire, reference ZD25/00369/FULL)
How it compares
Tunstall & East Appleton Solar Farm - Solar Farm is the 1,158th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,817th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 23.5 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 | 1,158th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,817th of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 3,516th of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 197 grid connections (100 operating, 1,182 MW), 97 substations and 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Appleton Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 4.5 MW | Operating | 0.1 km |
| East Appleton Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 4.5 MW | Operating | 0.1 km |
| Solar 22.5 MW grid connection at Turnstall Solar Farm | Grid connection | 22.5 MW | Planned | 0.1 km |
| Leeming Bar/Skeeby | Substation | — | — | 5.9 km |
| Catterick Camp | Substation | — | — | 6.4 km |
| Bedale | Substation | — | — | 8.1 km |
| Pulsant data center, England | Data center | — | — | 30 km |
| Lumen Technologies data center, Middlesbrough | Data center | — | — | 36 km |
| DXC Wynyard Data Center | Data center | — | — | 37 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.
- Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
- © 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.
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