Owls Hatch
Owls Hatch is a 51.9 MW solar farm in South East England, 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
- South East
- England
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 51.9 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Solar Β· PV
- Operator
- Cubico Sustainable Investments
- Region
- South East
- Country
- England
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- CT6 7FT
- Coordinates
- 51.3516, 1.0986
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 Owls Hatch compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 10% of the maximum possible output), a 51.9 MW station would generate roughly 45 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 16,850 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 East All run by Cubico Sustainable InvestmentsNearby generating sites
- Woodlands Farm Β· 13.2 MW solar farm3.3 km
- Kentish Flats Extension Β· 49.5 MW offshore wind farm9.6 km
- Kentish Flats Β· 90 MW offshore wind farm12.1 km
- Abbey Fields Solar Farm Β· 4.94 MW solar farm13.7 km
- Knowlton Β· 11.5 MW solar farm17.4 km
- Manston Thorne Β· 6.2 MW solar farm17.5 km
- Manston Β· 9.83 MW solar farm18.7 km
- Westwood Β· 9.18 MW solar farm19.2 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
- Owls Hatch Road
- Developer / operator
- Cubico Sustainable Investments
- Planning authority
- Canterbury
- Planning reference
- CA//14/01792
- Application submitted
- 22 August 2014
- Permission granted
- 30 January 2015
- Construction started
- 1 February 2015
- Began operating
- 29 March 2015
- Capacity in planning record
- 48 MW
- Address
- Land south of Owl's Hatch Road, Herne, Kent
- REPD reference
- 2255
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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