Power plant · Staffordshire Moorlands, England, United Kingdom
Upper Leigh Solar Farm
Upper Leigh Solar Farm is a permitted solar power plant in Staffordshire Moorlands, England, United Kingdom, with 49.9 MW of capacity, operated by Lightrock Power.
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 | Staffordshire Moorlands (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Lower Tean Leys, Tean Leys, Lower Tean, ST10 4NS | 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 | 2 Apr 2024 (permit SMD/2023/0059, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Staffordshire Moorlands) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 30 Jan 2023 (reference SMD/2023/0059, planning authority Staffordshire Moorlands) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 2 Apr 2024 (granted, reference SMD/2023/0059, planning authority Staffordshire Moorlands) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Lightrock Power (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 49.9 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 | 49.4 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 52.9389, -1.9881 | 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 Staffordshire Moorlands, reference SMD/2023/0059)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Staffordshire Moorlands, reference SMD/2023/0059)
How it compares
Upper Leigh Solar Farm is the 455th-largest of 1,651 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 801st-largest of 2,549 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 49.9 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 | 455th of 1,651 | 172,174 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 801st of 2,549 | 279,978 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 1,881st of 5,782 | 643,557 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 27 grid connections (15 operating, 138 MW), 22 substations, 3 data centers, 3 gas storage facilities and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internet Central data center, England | Data center | — | — | 20 km |
| Dane Moss Solar PV grid connection | Grid connection | 7.5 MW | Planned | 35 km |
| Danes Moss Landfill Site 2 grid connection | Grid connection | 2.1 MW | Operating | 35 km |
| Danes Moss Landfill Site 3 grid connection | Grid connection | 1.01 MW | Operating | 35 km |
| Ashwood Dale | Substation | — | — | 36 km |
| S.E. Macclesfield | Substation | — | — | 36 km |
| S.W. Macclesfield | Substation | — | — | 36 km |
| Chesterfield to Willington | Transmission line | — | Planned | 38 km |
| Salinae Hydrogen Storage project | Gas storage facility | — | Planned | 39 km |
Operator and place
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Other power plants in England
- Drax Power Station Biomass Units2,580 MW
- Ratcliffe-on-Soar2,021 MW
- Cottam2,000 MW
- Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
- West Burton2,000 MW
- Eggborough1,960 MW
- Staythorpe1,828 MW
- Fiddler’s Ferry1,510 MW
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.
- SP Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, 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.