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About Bulphan Fen Solar Farm
Bulphan Fen Solar Farm is a 50 MW solar farm near Bulphan, by Upminster, in Essex. It has been sending power to the grid since April 2025, by Elexon's metered figures, though the planning database (July 2026) still lists it as under construction. It shares its site with a battery, which the planning database lists as under construction (Bulphan Fen battery storage, live on its own page).
Its 50 MW of registered generating capacity is spread across one balancing mechanism unit. Every half hour each unit tells the grid how much it will generate (its physical notification): that is the live figure above, and GridMonkey records it every half hour for the chart.
Solar farms generate in daylight only: their output climbs from sunrise to a midday peak and falls to zero at dusk, higher on clear days and in summer. Few solar farms report their output one by one: Bulphan Fen Solar Farm is one of only eight in Great Britain that do, while the government lists 1,386 as operating. Why so few?
| Type | Solar farm |
|---|---|
| Registered capacity | 50 MW (Elexon) |
| Installed capacity | 49.9 MW (REPD) |
| Status | Generating since April 2025 (Elexon); under construction in REPD (July 2026) |
| Construction began | March 2025 (REPD) |
| Site area | 168 hectares (REPD) |
| Battery on the site | under construction (REPD) Bulphan Fen battery storage, live → |
| Area | Essex |
| Location | Near Bulphan, by Upminster, in Essex 51.539° N, 0.340° E |
| Planning authority | Thurrock |
| Owner | CVC DIF |
| Operator in REPD | Warley Green Limited |
| Elexon lead party | EDF Energy Customers Limited |
| BM unit | T_BLPFS-1 50 MW |
| Size | Joint 2nd largest of the eight solar farms that report live, by registered capacity |
The other solar farms that report live
- Cleve Hill Solar Park 317 MW, Kent
- Breach Solar Farm 50 MW, Cambridgeshire
- Burwell Solar Farm 50 MW, Cambridgeshire
- Larks Green Solar Farm 50 MW, South Gloucestershire
- Tye Lane Solar Farm 50 MW, Suffolk
- Sutton Bridge Solar Farm 49 MW, Lincolnshire
- Tebworth Solar Farm 46 MW, Bedfordshire
All eight solar farms, live on a map → Every wind farm, live on a map → Power stations, live →
Contains BMRS data © Elexon Limited copyright and database right 2026 (licence). The farm's name and area come from GridMonkey's own table, matched to the units in Elexon's register; its output here is its physical notification, not metered generation. Installed capacity, status, dates, site area, battery, planning authority, operator and location: Renewable Energy Planning Database (DESNZ, July 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.