Solar · United Kingdom
Gib Lane Solar farm (Extension)
Operational5 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 15 June 2016
The site
- Technology
- Solar
- Capacity
- 5 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Haymaker Energy
- Location
- Land to East of Gib Lane, Bierton, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Planning application
- 15/02533/APP
- First operating
- 2016
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Timeline
- 22 July 2015 Planning application submitted
- 21 October 2015 Planning permission granted
- 8 January 2016 Construction started
- 22 March 2016 Operational
Incidents on the register at this site
None found. The register holds no published incident that names Gib Lane Solar farm (Extension). 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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