Solar · United Kingdom
Drapers Farm Solar Park
Operational6 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 20 May 2014
The site
- Technology
- Solar
- Capacity
- 6 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Lightsource Renewable Energy
- Location
- E/O Milch Hill Lane, Great Leighs, Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 1QF, Essex, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Uttlesford
- Planning application
- UTT/13/0561/FUL
- First operating
- 2014
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Timeline
- 15 March 2013 Planning application submitted
- 7 June 2013 Planning permission granted
- 26 September 2013 Construction started
- 30 March 2014 Operational
Incidents on the register at this site
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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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