← Back to Oxfordshire

Energy sites / United Kingdom / Oxfordshire

Solar · United Kingdom

Ray Valley Solar Farm

Under Construction19 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 22 June 2023

Technology
Solar
Capacity
19 MW
Status
Under Construction
Operator or applicant
Low Carbon
Location
Os Parcel 6086 Adjacent, Ploughley Road, Railway Line, Arncott, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX25 1AB, United Kingdom
Planning authority
Cherwell
Planning application
20/00285/F

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

  • 3 February 2020 Planning application submitted
  • 4 December 2020 Planning permission granted
  • 28 May 2023 Planning permission expired

None found. The register holds no published incident that names Ray Valley 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

Preparing, reviewing or responding to a planning application for a site like this? The planning evidence pack sets out every comparable incident for one project, with sources. £295, by email in minutes.

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.