Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Barge Way grid connection
Barge Way grid connection is a planned grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 99.9 MW of capacity, held by FPC Electric Land Limited.
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.
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | England (connects at Kemsley) | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned (accepted to connect) | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Holder | FPC Electric Land Limited | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Kemsley Energy Park Battery Storage (matched by coordinates+technology+capacity+company, 0.22 km away) | Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 99.9 MW | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Battery storage | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | South Eastern Power Networks plc (UK Power Networks, South East England licence area) | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Queue date | 1 May 2022 | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Connection date | 12 Jan 2029 (target energisation) | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 132 kV | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.3672, 0.7451 | UK 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.
Latest events
Dated events about this grid connection and the records linked to it from official notices, registers and owners' press releases, newest first. All recent changes.
- Permit granted: Kemsley Energy Park Battery Storage (planning authority Swale, reference 23/500771/FULL)
- Permit applied for: Kemsley Energy Park Battery Storage (planning authority Swale, reference 23/500771/FULL)
How it compares
Barge Way grid connection is the 355th-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 458th-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 99.9 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.
| Within | Rank | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 355th of 3,539 | 341,715 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 458th of 4,870 | 467,981 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 3,209th of 8,618 | 1,355,288 MW | <0.1% |
Timeline
Dated facts about this grid connection from its sources, oldest first.
- Entered the connection queue
- Due to connect
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 337 power plants (131 operating, 7,013 MW), 228 substations, 10 data centers and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kemsley Substation | Power plant | 49.9 MW | Operating | 0.1 km |
| Kemsley Energy Park Battery Storage | Power plant | 120 MW | Permitted | 0.2 km |
| Garden of England Energy | Power plant | 10.4 MW | Cancelled | 0.3 km |
| Grovehurst Local 11kV | Substation | — | — | 0.6 km |
| Sittingbourne Town 11kV | Substation | — | — | 2.9 km |
| Sittingbourne West 11kV | Substation | — | — | 3.5 km |
| Sota Datacentre | Data center | — | — | 6.1 km |
| CustodianDC Maidstone | Data center | — | — | 17 km |
| CXD Infrastructure Solutions | Data center | — | — | 17 km |
Holder, grid operator and place
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- Bute Hydrogen Project 2 grid connection3,600 MW
- Bute Hydrogen Project 3 grid connection3,600 MW
- Bute Hydrogen Project 5 grid connection3,600 MW
- Bute Hydrogen Project 6 grid connection3,600 MW
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Data on this page
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- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
- SP Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
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- Supported by National Energy SO Open Data. NESO TEC Register, NESO Open Data Licence v1.0.
- Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
- NYISO interconnection queue. NYISO interconnection queue, Free reuse.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- PJM New Services Queue. PJM New Services Queue, Free reuse.
- Rare Context entity resolution. Rare Context entity resolution, CC0 1.0.
- SP Energy Networks, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Energy Networks open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- UK Power Networks. UK Power Networks open data portal, CC BY 4.0.