Power plant · Stroud, England, United Kingdom
Unit Q1, Quadrant Distribution Centre, Hardwick - Solar Panels
Unit Q1, Quadrant Distribution Centre, Hardwick - Solar Panels is a permitted power plant in Stroud, England, United Kingdom, with 1 MW of capacity, operated by MG Markey Group 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 | Stroud (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Unit Q1 (MG Markey Group Ltd) Quadrant Distribution Centre Quadrant Way Hardwicke Gloucester, GL2 2RN | 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 | 31 May 2022 (permit S.22/0897/P14J, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Stroud) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 12 Apr 2022 (reference S.22/0897/P14J, planning authority Stroud) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 31 May 2022 (granted, reference S.22/0897/P14J, planning authority Stroud) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | MG Markey Group Limited (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 1 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 | 51.8114, -2.2781 | 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 Stroud, reference S.22/0897/P14J)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Stroud, reference S.22/0897/P14J)
How it compares
Unit Q1, Quadrant Distribution Centre, Hardwick - Solar Panels is the 1,581st-largest of 1,651 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,458th-largest of 2,549 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1 MW is <0.1% of the 279,978 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 | 1,581st of 1,651 | 172,174 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,458th of 2,549 | 279,978 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,691st of 5,782 | 643,557 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 96 grid connections (59 operating, 863 MW), 54 substations, 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DXC Technology | Data center | — | — | 16 km |
| Tetbury Primary | Substation | — | — | 21 km |
| Kemble RAF Primary | Substation | — | — | 22 km |
| Whiteway Primary | Substation | — | — | 23 km |
| Bathurst Estates grid connection | Grid connection | 49.9 MW | Operating | 24 km |
| Cirencester Solar Park grid connection | Grid connection | 25 MW | Planned | 24 km |
| Marsh Farm B PV grid connection | Grid connection | 11.4 MW | Operating | 24 km |
| nLighten Bristol | Data center | — | — | 37 km |
| University of Bristol Isambard-AI | AI supercomputer | 5,448 H100e | Operating | 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.