Solar · United Kingdom
Wilbees Farm
Operational5 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 17 November 2016
The site
- Technology
- Solar
- Capacity
- 5 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Hive Energy
- Location
- Wilbees Farm, The Street, Polegate, East Sussex, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Wealden
- Planning application
- WD/2014/1838/MEA
- First operating
- 2016
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Timeline
- 5 September 2014 Planning application submitted
- 14 November 2014 Planning permission granted
- 1 July 2016 Construction started
- 21 October 2016 Operational
Incidents on the register at this site
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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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