Power plant · Somerset, England, United Kingdom

Wick Farm Solar Park

Wick Farm Solar Park is a power plant in Somerset, England, United Kingdom, with 14.6 MW of capacity, operated by Hadstone Energy and Communities for Renewables.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Somerset (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	S/O Wick Farm, Brean Road, Lympsham, Weston Super Mare, North Somerset, BS24 0HD	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating (operational)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	2016	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	28 Oct 2014 (permit 05/14/00019, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Somerset)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	20 Aug 2014 (reference 05/14/00019, planning authority Somerset)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	28 Oct 2014 (granted, reference 05/14/00019, planning authority Somerset)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Hadstone Energy (Hadstone Energy/ Communities for Renewables)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Communities for Renewables (Hadstone Energy/ Communities for Renewables)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	14.6 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	36.6 ha (solar site area)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	51.2875, -2.9788	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Latest events

Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.

1 Jul 2016Commissioned
28 Oct 2014Permit granted (planning authority Somerset, reference 05/14/00019)
20 Aug 2014Permit applied for (planning authority Somerset, reference 05/14/00019)

How it compares

Wick Farm Solar Park is the 817th-largest of 3,430 power plants in England and the 1,464th-largest of 5,050 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 14.6 MW is <0.1% of the 115,622 MW we hold for the United Kingdom. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
England	817th of 3,430	71,965 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	1,464th of 5,050	115,622 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	5,325th of 12,032	1,190,447 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.

2016Started operating

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 30 grid connections (16 operating, 137 MW), 14 substations, 9 data centers, 2 transmission lines 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
Tata Communications Highbridge Datacentre	Data center	—	—	6.8 km
Insight Data Ltd	Data center	—	—	9.2 km
Hinkley Point C Connection Project Material Change	Transmission line	—	Planned	11 km
Hinkley Point C Connection	Transmission line	—	Permitted	15 km
Microsoft Newport data centre	Data center	—	—	30 km
Fleet Air Arm Museum grid connection	Grid connection	4.01 MW	Operating	38 km
Solar 1.254 MW grid connection at Castle Cary	Grid connection	1.25 MW	Operating	39 km
Southfield Farm Solar Park grid connection	Grid connection	7.6 MW	Operating	40 km
Castle Cary Primary	Substation	—	—	40 km

Operators and place

Hadstone EnergyOperator
Communities for RenewablesOperator
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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.
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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