Solar · United Kingdom
Moss Thorn Farm
Operational5.8 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 20 April 2017
The site
- Technology
- Solar
- Capacity
- 5.8 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- TGC Renewables
- Location
- Land near Moss Thorn Farm, Pallet Hill, Penrith, Cumbria, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Planning application
- 15/0459
- Appeal reference
- APP/H0928/W/16/3143476
- First operating
- 2017
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Timeline
- 29 May 2015 Planning application submitted
- 4 December 2015 Planning permission refused
- 25 February 2016 Appeal lodged
- 11 October 2016 Planning permission granted
- 11 October 2016 Appeal granted
- 14 November 2016 Construction started
- 27 February 2017 Operational
Incidents on the register at this site
None found. The register holds no published incident that names Moss Thorn 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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