Solar · United Kingdom
Tesco Store Bishop Auckland
Awaiting Construction0.5 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 24 February 2022
The site
- Technology
- Solar
- Capacity
- 0.5 MW
- Status
- Awaiting Construction (Planning Permission Granted)
- Operator or applicant
- Tesco Stores
- Location
- Tesco Extra, Abraham Enterprise Park, St. Helen Auckland, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, County Durham, DL14 9AB, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- County Durham
- Planning application
- DM/19/03613/PNS
View on OpenStreetMap. The larger dot is this site; the others are sites within 40 km.
Timeline
- 20 November 2019 Planning application submitted
- 8 January 2020 Planning permission granted
Incidents on the register at this site
None found. The register holds no published incident that names Tesco Store Bishop Auckland. If you know of one, report it (confidential reports are anonymised).
Follow Tesco Store Bishop Auckland
Get one email when this site's status changes in the Renewable Energy Planning Database (UK government), or when the register publishes an incident that names it. Free, no account needed, unsubscribe in one click.
By following you agree to the privacy policy.
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
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.