Solar · United Kingdom
Thanet Way, Herne Bay Solar Farm
Planning Permission Expired20 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 30 November 2021
The site
- Technology
- Solar
- Capacity
- 20 MW
- Status
- Planning Permission Expired
- Operator or applicant
- Vattenfall
- Location
- Land To The South Of Thanet Way (A299), Kent, CT6 7NU, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Canterbury
- Planning application
- CA/20/02204
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Timeline
- 2 October 2020 Planning application submitted
- 5 March 2021 Planning permission granted
- 5 March 2024 Planning permission expired
Incidents on the register at this site
None found. The register holds no published incident that names Thanet Way, Herne Bay Solar 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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