← Back to Essex

Energy sites / United Kingdom / Essex

Solar · United Kingdom

Medebridge Road - Solar Farm

Operational49.9 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 11 November 2025

Technology
Solar
Capacity
49.9 MW
Status
Operational
Operator or applicant
Medebridge Solar
Location
Fen Lane And Medebridge Road, Essex, RM15 6HT, United Kingdom
Planning authority
Thurrock
Planning application
21/02159/FUL
First operating
2025

View on OpenStreetMap. The larger dot is this site; the others are sites within 40 km.

  • 14 February 2022 Planning application submitted
  • 10 May 2022 Planning permission granted
  • 1 April 2024 Construction started
  • 1 September 2025 Operational

None found. The register holds no published incident that names Medebridge Road - Solar Farm. If you know of one, report it (confidential reports are anonymised).

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.

What fails at solar farms · All solar farms incidents

Own, insure or lend to this site or others like it? A portfolio safety record checks every site in a list against the register, free; the paid records add the site, operator, cause, downtime and loss behind each incident.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero). The dataset. The register adds only the incidents and the counts.