Shearwater Solar Farm
Low Carbon UK Solar Investment Company Limited at Ninfield
UKPN Embedded Capacity Register 2 – 1MW and above, October 2026 edition
Site, company and substation names are shown as they appear in the registers, including capitalisation.
- Target energisation date
- 31 Jan 2029
- Status
- Accepted to connect
- Customer
- Low Carbon UK Solar Investment Company Limited
- Site name
- Shearwater Solar Farm
- Address
- Lottbridge Drove, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN23 6QJ
- Grid reference
- Easting 561342, northing 101267
- Licence area
- South Eastern Power Networks (SPN)
- Grid supply point
- Ninfield
- Bulk supply point
- Eastbourne Grid 33kV
- Primary substation
- Not stated
- Connection voltage
- 33 kV
- Technology group
- Storage
- Energy source 1
- Stored Energy (all stored energy irrespective of the original energy source), Storage - Electrochemical (Batteries): 17 MW registered
- Registered capacity
- 17 MW
- Change to maximum export capacity
- 17 MW
- Change to maximum import capacity
- 5 MW
- Flexible connection
- No
- In a connection queue
- Yes
- Date accepted
- 21 Apr 2021
- Date connected
- Not stated
- Distribution reinforcement reference
- Not published by UKPN
- Transmission reinforcement reference
- Not published by UKPN
- Export MPAN
- Not stated
- Import MPAN
- Not stated
- Last updated
- 15 Jan 2024
- Tracked since
- September 2026 edition
Change history
Tracked since the September 2026 edition, across 2 editions.
Changes to its status, capacity, technology or customer, newest first.
No change to its status, capacity, technology or customer.
Also at Ninfield
GSP view32 other sites at this grid supply point in the October 2026 edition. In all, the sites here total 846 MW: 277 MW connected, 569 MW accepted to connect.
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