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Abbey Mills Pumping Station grid connection

Abbey Mills Pumping Station grid connection is a grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 4 MW of capacity, held by Thames Water.

Map: where Abbey Mills Pumping Station grid connection lies
51.5305, -0.0009 on OpenStreetMap

Facts

Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.

FactValueSource
LocationEngland (connects at West Ham Grid 11kV)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
StatusOperating (connected)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
HolderThames WaterUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Capacity4 MWUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
TechnologyOilUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Grid operatorLondon Power Networks plc (UK Power Networks, London licence area)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Connection date1 Jan 2006UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates51.5305, -0.0009UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026

Research on this grid connection and its holder.Who holds it up to the parent company, the project behind it and its connection date, and an introduction to the holder.

How it compares

Abbey Mills Pumping Station grid connection is the 2,544th-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 3,524th-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 4 MW is <0.1% of the 467,981 MW we hold for the United Kingdom. Ranks and totals cover the grid connections in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence.

WithinRankTotalShare
England2,544th of 3,539341,715 MW<0.1%
United Kingdom3,524th of 4,870467,981 MW<0.1%
All grid connections in our data7,235th of 8,6181,355,288 MW<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this grid connection: 583 substations, 386 power plants (140 operating, 6,064 MW), 140 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 1 transmission line and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

NameKindSizeStatusDistance
King's YardPower plant3 MWOperating0.6 km
Bow 11kVSubstation——0.8 km
Bywaters’ Materials Recovery Facility Solar ArrayPower plant1 MWOperating0.9 km
Netwise London EastData center——1.1 km
Olympic Park Wind TurbinePower plant2.5 MWCancelled1.2 km
West Ham 66kVSubstation——1.3 km
West Ham Grid 11kVSubstation——1.3 km
Tata StratfordData center——1.4 km
The Bidder Street developmentData center—Under construction1.5 km

Holder, grid operator and place

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