Box Road
Box Road is a 1.9 MW solar farm in South West England, operated by WPO UK Services. The UK government lists it as operational in its register of power stations (DUKES table 5.11, May 2025).
- PV
- South West
- England
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 1.9 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Solar Β· PV
- Operator
- WPO UK Services
- Region
- South West
- Country
- England
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Coordinates
- 51.7201, -2.3659
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 Box Road compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 10% of the maximum possible output), a 1.9 MW station would generate roughly 1.7 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 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 South West All run by WPO UK ServicesNearby generating sites
- Hill House Farm Β· 28.3 MW solar farm1.8 km
- Lynch Knoll Β· 0.5 MW onshore wind farm7.1 km
- Upper Wick Β· 5 MW solar farm7.3 km
- Berkeley Nuclear Power Station Β· 276 MW nuclear power station9.8 km
- Oldbury Nuclear Power Station Β· 434 MW nuclear power station16.4 km
- Milkwall Solar Farm Β· 3.5 MW solar farm18.5 km
- Alveston Β· 6.9 MW onshore wind farm18.9 km
- Coleford Pingry Solar Farm Β· 3.4 MW solar farm19.0 km
Also operated by WPO UK Services
WPO UK Services operates 38 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 Box Road
- Developer / operator
- Suncredit UK
- Planning authority
- Stroud
- Planning reference
- S.15/1477/FUL
- Application submitted
- 30 June 2015
- Permission granted
- 29 September 2015
- Construction started
- 15 February 2016
- Began operating
- 24 March 2016
- Capacity in planning record
- 2.2 MW
- Address
- Land N/O Cam and Coaley Railway, Box Road, Cam, Dursley, Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, GL11 5DJ
- REPD reference
- 5442
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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