Power plant · East Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Ware Solar Park - Solar Farm & Battery Energy Storage
Ware Solar Park - Solar Farm & Battery Energy Storage is a permitted power plant in East Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, with 24 MW of capacity, operated by Farm 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 | East Hertfordshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | West Of Ware Ware Park Farm, SG12 0EB | 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 | 17 Oct 2025 (permit 3/24/1275/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by East Hertfordshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 12 Jul 2024 (reference 3/24/1275/FUL, planning authority East Hertfordshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 17 Oct 2025 (granted, reference 3/24/1275/FUL, planning authority East Hertfordshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Farm Energy | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 24 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 | 18.3 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.8126, -0.0565 | 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 East Hertfordshire, reference 3/24/1275/FUL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority East Hertfordshire, reference 3/24/1275/FUL)
How it compares
Ware Solar Park - Solar Farm & Battery Energy Storage is the 1,151st-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,800th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 24 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 | 1,151st of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,800th of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 3,456th of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 97 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 59 substations, 25 grid connections (15 operating, 146 MW), 1 AI supercomputer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colt London North Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 8.8 km |
| Hertfordshire Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 8.9 km |
| Google Datacentre Waltham Cross | Data center | — | — | 13 km |
| NVIDIA Cambridge-1 | AI supercomputer | 202 H100e | Operating | 14 km |
| North London (Electricity Line) Reinforcement | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 23 km |
| Tertiary Study grid connection | Grid connection | 57 MW | Planned | 33 km |
| Willesden GSP | Substation | — | — | 34 km |
| Acton Lane BSP | Substation | — | — | 34 km |
| Canal Bank 11kV Primary | Substation | — | — | 34 km |
Operator and place
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- Atlantic Array One - Bristol Channel Zone1,200 MW
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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.