Safeguard Bradwall
Safeguard Bradwall is a 5 MW solar farm in North 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
- North West
- England
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 5 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Solar Β· PV
- Operator
- Lightsource BP
- Region
- North West
- Country
- England
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- CW10 0LA
- Coordinates
- 53.1679, -2.3617
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 Safeguard Bradwall 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.
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- Dairy House Farm Β· 3.37 MW solar farm12.3 km
- Combermere Β· 14 MW solar farm24.8 km
- Rocksavage Power Company Ltd Β· 810 MW CCGT gas power station27.4 km
- Heywood Grange Β· 4.96 MW solar farm27.4 km
- Carrington Power Β· 884 MW CCGT gas power station29.7 km
- Frodsham Wind Farm Β· 50.4 MW onshore wind farm30.2 km
- Fiddler's Ferry Power Station Β· 1,995 MW coal-fired power station30.9 km
- Fields Farm (Agden) Β· 5 MW solar farm31.3 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
- Land south of Wood Lane (Safeguard Bradwell)
- Developer / operator
- Lightsource Renewable Energy
- Planning authority
- Cheshire East
- Planning reference
- 15/1541C
- Application submitted
- 31 March 2015
- Permission granted
- 4 September 2015
- Construction started
- 22 September 2016
- Began operating
- 15 January 2017
- Capacity in planning record
- 5 MW
- Address
- Land south of, Wood Lane, Bradwall, Sandbach, Cheshire, Cheshire, CW11 1PA
- REPD reference
- 5447
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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