Power plant · Swindon, England, United Kingdom
Unit O, Penzance Drive - Solar Panels
Unit O, Penzance Drive - Solar Panels is a permitted power plant in Swindon, England, United Kingdom, with 1.96 MW of capacity, operated by Ortus Energy.
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 | Swindon (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Unit O, Penzance Drive, Swindon, SN5 7JF | 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 | 23 May 2024 (permit S/23/0975, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Swindon) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 19 Sept 2023 (reference S/23/0975, planning authority Swindon) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 23 May 2024 (granted, reference S/23/0975, planning authority Swindon) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Ortus Energy | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 1.96 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 | 0.95 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.5575, -1.8061 | 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.
- Permit granted (planning authority Swindon, reference S/23/0975)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Swindon, reference S/23/0975)
How it compares
Unit O, Penzance Drive - Solar Panels is the 1,875th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,854th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1.96 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 | 1,875th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,854th of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 6,058th of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 216 grid connections (120 operating, 1,337 MW), 143 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toothill Primary | Substation | — | — | 0.5 km |
| Toothill BSP | Substation | — | — | 0.5 km |
| Mannington Battery grid connection | Grid connection | 5 MW | Planned | 1.0 km |
| Trading Estate Primary | Substation | — | — | 1.6 km |
| Solar 2.375 MW grid connection at Swindon | Grid connection | 2.38 MW | Operating | 1.6 km |
| Generation 11.4 MW grid connection at Minety GSP | Grid connection | 11.4 MW | Operating | 1.8 km |
| Nationwide Swindon Technology Centre | Data center | — | — | 2.7 km |
| Vodafone | Data center | — | — | 2.9 km |
| AWS Swindon Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 4.7 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.
- 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.