Castle Combe
Castle Combe is a 15.3 MW solar farm in South West England, operated by Lightsource BP. 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
- 15.3 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Solar Β· PV
- Operator
- Lightsource BP
- Region
- South West
- Country
- England
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- SN14 7EY
- Coordinates
- 51.4936, -2.2174
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 Castle Combe compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 10% of the maximum possible output), a 15.3 MW station would generate roughly 13 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 4,970 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 Lightsource BPNearby generating sites
- Hullavington Β· 8.32 MW solar farm6.6 km
- Norrington Β· 11.2 MW solar farm12.7 km
- Sandridge Β· 49.6 MW solar farm16.0 km
- Newnton Dairy Β· 7.18 MW solar farm16.4 km
- Says Court Β· 19.8 MW solar farm16.7 km
- Craymarsh Β· 1.82 MW solar farm16.9 km
- Bradenstoke Solar Park Ltd Β· 69.8 MW solar farm17.3 km
- Trowle Β· 5 MW solar farm18.6 km
Also operated by Lightsource BP
Lightsource BP operates 129 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
- Castle Combe Circuit
- Developer / operator
- Sunsave 17 / Vogt Solar
- Planning authority
- Wiltshire
- Planning reference
- 14/06821/FUL
- Application submitted
- 16 July 2014
- Permission granted
- 10 November 2014
- Construction started
- 5 January 2015
- Began operating
- 31 March 2015
- Capacity in planning record
- 12 MW
- Address
- Castle Combe, Circuit Castle, Combe, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN14 7EY
- REPD reference
- 1944
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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