Solar · United Kingdom
Bourne Farm
Operational2.4 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 24 May 2016
The site
- Technology
- Solar
- Capacity
- 2.4 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Farm Power Apollo
- Location
- Field B8 at Bourne Farm, adjacent to the Bourne Park Industrial Estates, Dorset, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Dorset
- Planning application
- 1/D/13/001044
- First operating
- 2015
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Timeline
- 1 August 2013 Planning application submitted
- 14 October 2013 Planning permission granted
- 30 November 2014 Construction started
- 15 March 2015 Operational
Incidents on the register at this site
None found. The register holds no published incident that names Bourne Farm. If you know of one, report it (confidential reports are anonymised).
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Incidents at solar farms in the United Kingdom
The register holds 86 incidents at solar farms in the United Kingdom, 59 of them fires, and 344 worldwide. Counts of incidents in published reporting, not rates.
- Fire involving solar panels at a Market Harborough house spreads to an adjoining property
- Solar inverter fire on agricultural building in Shropshire
- Fire damages solar panel batteries in a Teignmouth garage
- Fire damages roof with one solar panel in The Charltons
- Solar panels on flat roof alight at terraced building in Newquay
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