Solar · United Kingdom
Westerfield Farm
Revised12 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 23 December 2013
The site
- Technology
- Solar
- Capacity
- 12 MW
- Status
- Revised
- Operator or applicant
- Lightsource Renewable Energy
- Location
- Westerfield Farm, Carterton, Oxfordshire, OX18, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Planning application
- 13/1129/P/FP
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Timeline
- 9 August 2013 Planning application submitted
- 22 October 2013 Planning permission refused
Incidents on the register at this site
None found. The register holds no published incident that names Westerfield 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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