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Solar farm leads, UK: approved projects weekly

The solar farms that now have a date to build by.

A solar farm needs two things before it can be built: planning approval and a date to connect. Either on its own is a hope. Both together, with a company behind them that has done it before, is a project that will be procured within the year.

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PA/2026/1178written for equipment and epc

38 MW solar farm approved with a 2027 connection date

  • Planning approval granted 10 September 2026 for 38 MW.
  • The connection date is firm for the second quarter of 2027.
  • Held by a project company whose parent owns four operating solar farms.
  • Co-located storage is referred to but not yet approved.

Approval and a firm connection date in the same month, behind a parent that already runs four sites. Construction is next year's, and the storage beside it may be a second project for the same buyer.

What puts a card here
A solar project gains its planning approval or its firm connection date.
When the money moves
Construction usually starts within twelve months of both being in place.
You sell
storage and solar EPC, switchgear, transformers, main plant

Three things the card tells you that a list cannot.

The permission is the start of it. What makes the call worth making is what the other records say about the company holding it, 13 of them read together.

  1. The megawatts and the county, so you know in one line whether it is your size and your patch.
  2. Whether the project has both approval and a connection date, or only one, which is the difference between this year and some year.
  3. The company holding the project and the group behind it, because the buyer is often not the name on the planning application.

Who reads this one.

  • Solar EPC contractors
  • Module, inverter and mounting suppliers
  • Security, fencing and CCTV
  • Ecology and landscaping contractors

Questions about this one.

Do you only cover projects with a connection date?
No. An approval without a date is still a card, but it says plainly that the date is missing, because that tells you how far off the build is. Most suppliers want to see both.
What about rooftop and commercial solar?
Only where the project needs planning approval as a generating station. Smaller rooftop systems do not leave that kind of record and do not appear.

If this is what you sell, this is your category.

You sell storage and solar EPC, switchgear, transformers, main plant. Choose “Equipment and EPC” when you sign in and every card you are shown is read for that trade.

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