UK Renewable Project Pipeline Records — DESNZ REPD

Keyless. Pay per record. Every UK renewable and low-carbon energy project in the planning pipeline — technology, capacity, status, and milestones.

This actor turns the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) into clean, per-project records — the renewable and low-carbon electricity projects tracked through the UK planning system, from application to operation. Each run reads the official quarterly REPD extract published on GOV.UK and delivers one row per project: the operator or applicant organisation, the site name, the technology type, the installed capacity, the development status, the administrative location, the planning authority, and the key planning milestone dates. Project grain, structured for energy-market and planning analysis, reproduced under the Open Government Licence v3.0, with no personal data of any kind.

What this is, in one paragraph

DESNZ maintains the Renewable Energy Planning Database — a quarterly register of renewable and low-carbon electricity projects in the UK, covering every stage from planning application to operation. This actor reads the official CSV extract published on GOV.UK and flattens each project into a single analysis-ready record: the operator or applicant (an organisation), the site name, the technology type (onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, biomass, energy-from-waste, battery storage, and more), the installed capacity in MW electrical, turbine and solar attributes where relevant, the development status, the administrative location (county, region, country, post code, and grid coordinates), the planning authority, and the milestone dates (application submitted, permission granted, under construction, operational). Values are carried verbatim as published. It is the UK renewable-energy planning pipeline as clean rows. You are billed only for records actually delivered.

Who buys this and for what job

• Energy developers and investors tracking the UK renewable pipeline by technology, capacity, and planning stage.
• Grid, storage, and supply-chain teams sizing demand from projects at each development status.
• Planning consultancies and researchers analysing consent rates and timelines by technology and authority.
• Data engineers who want the REPD extract as clean, keyless rows for a pipeline.

DESNZ licence — Open Government Licence v3.0

REPD is Crown copyright, reproduced under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (OGL v3.0): free to reuse, including commercially, with attribution to DESNZ. Each record carries the attribution line "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD)." These are planning-register values as published — not a forecast.

Project grain — no person data

The unit of every record is a renewable-energy project — an asset in the planning system, never a person. The operator/applicant field is an organisation name (dispatch-sanctioned, standard in the public planning register). The source CSV carries a free-text site-address line that can, for small or domestic-scale applicants, read like a residential address; that free-text address is deliberately excluded and never emitted. Administrative geography — county, region, country, post code, and grid coordinates — is kept instead, and these are standard published attributes of a proposed energy project site. There is no named-individual, agent, or contact field, and a person-key guard runs on every record as a backstop.

Sample output

Real rows from a live run of this actor (first 5 rows, selected columns).

One full record from the same run, exactly as delivered:

{
  "record_id": "1",
  "old_ref_id": "N00053B",
  "record_last_updated": "16/01/2026",
  "operator": "RWE npower",
  "site_name": "Aberthaw Power Station Biomass",
  "technology_type": "Biomass (co-firing)",
  "storage_type": null,
  "installed_capacity_mwelec": 35,
  "chp_enabled": "No",
  "cfd_allocation_round": null,
  "ro_banding_roc_mwh": null,
  "turbine_capacity_mw": null,
  "number_of_turbines": null,
  "height_of_turbines_m": null,
  "mounting_type_solar": null,
  "development_status": "Decommissioned",
  "development_status_short": "Decommissioned",
  "county": "South Glamorgan",
  "region": "Wales",
  "country": "Wales",
  "post_code": "CF62 4ZW",
  "x_coordinate": 302219,
  "y_coordinate": 166320,
  "planning_authority": "Vale of Glamorgan",
  "planning_application_reference": "04/00580/FUL",
  "offshore_wind_round": null,
  "planning_application_submitted": "16/04/2004",
  "planning_permission_granted": "03/09/2004",
  "under_construction": "01/05/2006",
  "operational": "01/05/2007",
  "solar_site_area_sqm": null,
  "source": "UK DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD)",
  "source_url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/renewable-energy-planning-database-quarterly-extract",
  "licence": "UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) — reproduced under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (OGL v3.0): free to reuse, including commercially, with attribution to DESNZ. Project attributes, capacities, planning status, and milestone dates are carried VERBATIM as published.",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD).",
  "disclaimer": "UK renewable and low-carbon project pipeline records at project grain from the DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database. Project/site attributes only — operator or applicant ORGANISATION name, technology, installed capacity, development status, administrative location (county, region, country, post code, coordinates), planning authority, and milestone dates, carried verbatim. The free-text site-address line is DELIBERATELY EXCLUDED; there is no named-individual, agent, or contact field, and none is emitted — a person-key guard runs on every record as a backstop. Planning-register status, not a forecast or a guarantee that a project will be built.",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-25T17:26:38Z"
}

Pricing

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
renewable_project_record	$0.05	$0.045	$0.04	$0.0335

Delivered before charged. Blocked runs and empty results cost nothing.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
technologyContains	string	—	Optional. Keep only projects whose technology type contains this text (e.g. Solar, Wind, Battery).
statusContains	string	—	Optional. Keep only projects whose development status contains this text (e.g. Operational, Application).
country	string	—	Optional. England, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland.
maxRecords	integer	500	Ceiling on records delivered and billed.

Output

One JSON object per project. Real example (values as published):

{
  "record_id": "1",
  "old_ref_id": "N00053B",
  "record_last_updated": "16/01/2026",
  "operator": "RWE npower",
  "site_name": "Aberthaw Power Station Biomass",
  "technology_type": "Biomass (co-firing)",
  "storage_type": null,
  "installed_capacity_mwelec": 150.0,
  "development_status": "Operational",
  "development_status_short": "Operational",
  "county": "Vale of Glamorgan",
  "region": "Wales",
  "country": "Wales",
  "post_code": "CF62",
  "x_coordinate": 302000.0,
  "y_coordinate": 166000.0,
  "planning_authority": "Vale of Glamorgan",
  "operational": "01/01/2010",
  "source": "UK DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD)",
  "licence": "UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero ... Open Government Licence v3.0 ...",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. ...",
  "disclaimer": "UK renewable and low-carbon project pipeline records ... free-text site-address line is DELIBERATELY EXCLUDED ...",
  "observed_at": "2026-08-22T00:00:00Z"
}

An unbilled RUN_RECEIPT records the robots check, the resolved file, the filters, rows matched and delivered, and whether charged equals delivered.

Field reference

Each record is one project. Identity: record_id, old_ref_id, record_last_updated, operator (organisation), and site_name. Technology and capacity: technology_type, storage_type, installed_capacity_mwelec, chp_enabled, cfd_allocation_round, ro_banding_roc_mwh, turbine_capacity_mw, number_of_turbines, height_of_turbines_m, mounting_type_solar, and solar_site_area_sqm. Status: development_status, development_status_short. Location: county, region, country, post_code, x_coordinate, y_coordinate, and planning_authority. Milestones: planning_application_reference, offshore_wind_round, planning_application_submitted, planning_permission_granted, under_construction, and operational. Provenance: source, source_url, licence, attribution, disclaimer, and observed_at.

How a run works

A run first re-reads the robots posture of the GOV.UK assets host from your runtime and stops at the door if that ever changes. It resolves the current REPD CSV link from the GOV.UK publication page — so it always reads the latest quarterly extract — downloads and decodes the file, applies your optional technologyContains, statusContains, and country filters, and flattens each project to one record, carrying every value verbatim and never emitting the free-text site-address line. Records are delivered before they are charged, so a blocked or empty run costs you nothing. The actor stops at your maxRecords ceiling and records charge_equals_delivered in the receipt.

Coverage and scope

The REPD extract holds on the order of 14,000+ projects across every renewable and low-carbon technology and every stage of the planning pipeline. Because each record carries the technology_type, installed_capacity_mwelec, development_status_short, and country, segmenting the pipeline by technology, size, stage, or nation is straightforward. Pull all operational solar in Scotland, or the whole database to seed a pipeline warehouse.

Working with the pipeline

The pipeline is a funnel, and the fields make it measurable. Because every project carries a development_status_short alongside installed_capacity_mwelec and technology_type, an analyst can sum capacity by stage and technology in a single group-by — how much offshore wind is consented but not yet built, how much solar is in the application queue — and the milestone date fields (planning_application_submitted, planning_permission_granted, under_construction, operational) let a buyer reconstruct each project's journey and measure consent timelines by authority. The planning_authority, county, region, and country frame each project geographically, and the grid coordinates support mapping. The operator organisation groups projects by developer for portfolio views.

Location and joins

Administrative geography is carried at project-site level — county, region, country, post code, and Ordnance Survey grid coordinates — which is standard published planning data and lets a buyer place each project on a map or roll it up by authority. The planning_application_reference keys each project back to the local planning authority's own record for deeper research, and the record_id (REPD Ref ID) is the stable key across quarterly extracts, so two quarters can be diffed to see which projects advanced a stage. Because the free-text site-address line is excluded and the operator is an organisation, the record stays a clean, person-free asset record rather than anything resembling a personal directory.

Cost guidance

One renewable_project_record per delivered project: cost = projects delivered × your plan's per-record price. Scope with technologyContains, statusContains, or country to keep runs bounded. The database is ~14,000 projects; 1,000 projects is $50 (Free) / $33.50 (Gold).

Honest limitations

• As published. Values are as recorded in the quarterly extract; this actor reformats, it does not audit.
• A planning register, not a guarantee. A project's presence or status is a planning-system fact, not a promise that it will be built or operate.
• Site address excluded by design. The free-text address line is never emitted; administrative geography and coordinates are kept instead.
• Living source. REPD is refreshed quarterly; a run reads the latest extract, so figures shift between quarters.
• Acknowledge DESNZ under OGL v3.0. The attribution travels on every record.
• No person data of any kind.

Differentiation

This is a net-new category for the NexGenData fleet. It is distinct from the fleet's world-bank-project-records (global development-finance projects funded by the World Bank) — REPD is a UK-specific renewable-energy planning register at project grain, tracking technology, capacity, consent status, and milestones through the UK planning system, an entirely different source, geography, and subject. It is also distinct from the fleet's UK contract and company cells. Its specific job is the UK renewable and low-carbon project pipeline — what is proposed, where it stands, and how big it is.

The NexGen Signal family

Part of the NexGen Signal family of pay-per-record data products:

• World Bank Project Records
• UK Contract Opportunity Records
• UK Company Status Records
• UK Port Freight Flow Records — DfT
• UK Road Traffic Flow Records — DfT

Source: UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), quarterly extract published on GOV.UK. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Project grain; the operator/applicant is an organisation; the free-text site-address line is deliberately excluded; no named-individual, agent, or contact field, no natural-person data of any kind. Values as published in the quarterly extract, not a forecast or a guarantee of delivery.