Trench Farm
Trench Farm is a 5 MW solar farm in Wales, operated by Octopus Investments. The UK government lists it as operational in its register of power stations (DUKES table 5.11, May 2025).
- PV
- Wales
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 5 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Solar Β· PV
- Operator
- Octopus Investments
- Region
- Wales
- Country
- Wales
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- LL13 0NA
- Coordinates
- 52.9454, -2.9179
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 Trench 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 Wales All run by Octopus InvestmentsNearby generating sites
- Ebnal Lodge Β· 4.99 MW solar farm8.2 km
- Acrefair Β· 5 MW solar farm11.3 km
- Hadley Farm Β· 5 MW solar farm13.1 km
- Bubney Β· 40.4 MW solar farm13.3 km
- Fields Farm (Agden) Β· 5 MW solar farm13.6 km
- Charity Farm - CfD Β· 14.4 MW solar farm15.3 km
- Moor Farm Β· 3.73 MW solar farm17.3 km
- Combermere Β· 14 MW solar farm22.3 km
Also operated by Octopus Investments
Octopus Investments operates 134 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
- Developer / operator
- Lightsource Renewable Energy
- Planning authority
- Wrexham
- Planning reference
- P/2014/0484
- Application submitted
- 3 July 2014
- Permission granted
- 5 November 2014
- Construction started
- 6 November 2014
- Began operating
- 30 March 2015
- Capacity in planning record
- 7.2 MW
- Address
- Trench Farm, Red Hall Lane, Penley, Wrexham LL13 0NA, Clwyd
- REPD reference
- 2079
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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