Solar · United Kingdom
Former Maghaberry Airfield
Operational25.7 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 30 April 2018
The site
- Technology
- Solar
- Capacity
- 25.7 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Lightsource Renewable Energy
- Location
- Former Maghaberry Airfield, Antrim, Craigavon, Co Armagh, Co. Armagh, BT67 0JF, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Lisburn and Castlereagh
- Planning application
- S/2014/0913/F
- First operating
- 2018
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Timeline
- 14 January 2015 Planning application submitted
- 26 April 2016 Planning permission granted
- 21 September 2017 Construction started
- 30 January 2018 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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