Bake Farm
Bake Farm is a 5 MW solar farm in Scotland, operated by Cubico Sustainable Investments. The UK government lists it as operational in its register of power stations (DUKES table 5.11, May 2025).
- PV
- Scotland
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 5 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Solar Β· PV
- Operator
- Cubico Sustainable Investments
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- DD11 2QZ
- Coordinates
- 50.4057, -4.3510
Location
Map position from the published coordinates. For small sites this can be an approximate point rather than the exact boundary. Map Β© OpenStreetMap contributors.
How Bake Farm compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 10% of the maximum possible output), a 5 MW station would generate roughly 4.4 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 1,620 homes at 2,700 kWh each. This is an illustrative estimate, not the station's metered output: real generation varies with weather, availability and grid constraints.
Solar photovoltaic (PV) sites generate electricity from sunlight. Panels produce direct current, which inverters convert to alternating current for the grid. Output follows daylight and the seasons, so annual generation is a small fraction of the maximum possible.
All UK solar farms Solar farms in Scotland All run by Cubico Sustainable InvestmentsNearby generating sites
- Bake Farm Β· 5 MW solar farm0.0 km
- Wilton Β· 9.48 MW solar farm1.5 km
- Howton Β· 5 MW solar farm6.4 km
- Newton Ferrers Β· 19.5 MW solar farm8.5 km
- Mendennick Solar Β· 2.64 MW solar farm10.1 km
- North Wayton Β· 8.4 MW solar farm10.3 km
- High Down Β· 0.5 MW onshore wind farm10.6 km
- Trefinnick Β· 4.4 MW solar farm15.2 km
Also operated by Cubico Sustainable Investments
Cubico Sustainable Investments operates 18 sites in the register. Largest first:
Planning history
From the government's Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), matched to this site by location, capacity and name.
- Planning status
- Operational
- Site name in planning record
- Land At Bake Farm
- Developer / operator
- Murex Energy
- Planning authority
- Cornwall
- Planning reference
- PA15/04793
- Application submitted
- 19 June 2015
- Permission granted
- 1 September 2015
- Construction started
- 21 January 2016
- Began operating
- 31 March 2016
- Capacity in planning record
- 5 MW
- Address
- Land At Bake Farm, Bake Lane, Trerulefoot, Saltash, Cornwall, Cornwall, PL12 5
- REPD reference
- 5485
Source
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES), table 5.11: power stations in the United Kingdom β operational at end of May 2025.
Capacity is installed capacity as published, not current output. Status reflects the source date, not live operation.
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Last checked by Octary: 15 July 2026
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