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Map: the eight, and the other solar farms
Running now, as a share of capacity
- Under 20%
- 20–40%
- 40–60%
- 60–80%
- 80% or more
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- Other solar farms, which don't report live
Generating the most right now
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The eight solar farms, live
| Solar farm | Capacity | Now (MW) | Load | Last 7 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleve Hill Solar Park | 317 MW | … | … | … |
| Breach Solar Farm | 50 MW | … | … | … |
| Bulphan Fen Solar Farm | 50 MW | … | … | … |
| Burwell Solar Farm | 50 MW | … | … | … |
| Larks Green Solar Farm | 50 MW | … | … | … |
| Tye Lane Solar Farm | 50 MW | … | … | … |
| Sutton Bridge Solar Farm | 49 MW | … | … | … |
| Tebworth Solar Farm | 46 MW | … | … | … |
"Now" is each farm's physical notification for this half hour: the output it has told the grid it is running at. Capacity is its registered generating capacity in Elexon's register, and Load is "now" as a share of it. The last 7 days column is each farm's average output as a share of its capacity, from GridMonkey's own half-hourly record; it fills in once a whole day has been recorded.
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Why only eight?
Most of Britain's solar power never shows up farm by farm. The government's Renewable Energy Planning Database lists 1,386 solar farms operating in Great Britain, 10.9 GW between them, but only the few that trade in the balancing mechanism with units of their own report their output to Elexon one by one: these eight (the planning database still lists four of them as under construction, though Elexon's metered figures show them generating). The rest have no units of their own (most are connected to local distribution networks and sell through suppliers), so there is no live figure for any one of them.
Some of the biggest don't report: Llanwern (75 MW, near Newport), Shotwick (72.2 MW, on Deeside in Flintshire), Bradenstoke (69.8 MW, at MOD Lyneham in Wiltshire), Gonerby Moor (60 MW, near Grantham in Lincolnshire) and Skeeby (55 MW, near Richmond in North Yorkshire). Thirteen of the operating farms are 49.9 MW, just under the 50 MW above which a solar farm in England needed national planning consent rather than the council's; the limit rose to 100 MW on 31 December 2025.
And farms are only part of it. The UK had 23.2 GW of solar panels at the end of August 2026, on 2.1 million installations, most of them on rooftops. NESO estimates what all of them generate every half hour and Elexon publishes the estimate about two hours later, which is how this page sets the farms against all of Britain's solar. GridMonkey's pie of the national mix uses NESO's figures, so it counts every panel.
Contains BMRS data © Elexon Limited copyright and database right 2026 (licence). Farm names come from GridMonkey's own table, matched to the units in Elexon's register; a farm's output here is its physical notification, not metered generation. Positions, the other solar farms and their capacities: Renewable Energy Planning Database (DESNZ, July 2026). UK solar capacity: Solar photovoltaics deployment (DESNZ, provisional to the end of August 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.