E.ON UK has opened a consultation on revised plans for a 25MW solar PV power plant proposal.
The Lentons Lane Solar Farm is set to be located next to the M6 motorway in the Coventry area. A consultation on initial plans for the development was launched in 2023; following a significant volume of community feedback, plans for the site have been redeveloped and are now being put to the community for opinions between 3 July and 8 September 2025.
The redesigned Lentons Lane solar PV power plant proposal has a roughly 15% smaller footprint than the original design, but will still have the same generation capacity of 25MW.
Furthermore, the updated plans have increased the distance between the solar array and homes on Lentons Lane, moved the control cabin further away from nearby houses, and added new site access points to reduce disruption during the construction process. The leftover land from the smaller solar PV footprint of the project will instead be used as a landscape buffer zone, with hedgerow, tree, and wildflower planting providing both biodiversity enhancements for the area as well as noise and visual shielding to local residents.
The proposals are being put forward by E.ON as part of the Strategic Energy Partnership between E.ON and Coventry City Council. The Strategic Energy Partnership, launched in 2023, is a collaborative effort between E.ON and Coventry City Council, which will run for a total of 15 years and see the two organisations work together on a variety of sustainability initiatives in the Coventry area. One of these initiatives includes a scheme launched in December of last year to supply local residents with free home storage batteries; more recently, E.ON has launched another trial of this scheme in Crowle, northern Lincolnshire, and Starbeck, North Yorkshire, as covered by our sister site Current±.
Vijay Tank, chief commercial officer of E.ON Energy Infrastructure Solutions UK, said that getting feedback “from as many voices in the community as possible really does count”, adding that the proposed project “is a real chance to deliver clean, local power and is exactly the sort of project that could ultimately help lower energy bills overall.”
Councillor Jim O’Boyle, cabinet member for jobs, regeneration and climate change at Coventry City Council agreed, stating that it will be “a top priority for the project team to talk to local people and to show all the ways that they have been able to amend the original plan and to respond to the concerns raised by residents”. O’Boyle also noted: “This work is important as the country is working to improve energy resilience, with a need to identify ways of providing local clean, green energy as set out in our now adopted climate change strategy.”
