← Back to Somerset

Energy sites / United Kingdom / Somerset

Solar · United Kingdom

Tesco Ilminster - Solar Panels

Application Refused0.3 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 2 August 2021

Technology
Solar
Capacity
0.3 MW
Status
Application Refused (Planning Permission Refused)
Operator or applicant
Tesco Stores Limited
Location
Tesco, Shudrick Lane, Ilminster, Somerset, TA19 0BQ, United Kingdom
Planning authority
Somerset
Planning application
21/00209/PAPV

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

  • 9 June 2021 Planning application submitted
  • 27 July 2021 Planning permission refused

None found. The register holds no published incident that names Tesco Ilminster - Solar Panels. 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.