Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Bolton Road grid connection
Bolton Road grid connection is a grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 2.25 MW of capacity, held by Biffa Waste Services 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Name in the source | BOLTON ROAD grid connection | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Location | England (connects at Higher Walton) | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Operating (connected) | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Holder | Biffa Waste Services Limited | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Higher Walton (via a primary substation) | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 2.25 MW | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Landfill gas | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | Electricity North West Limited | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Connection date | 1 Sept 1996 | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 11 kV | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.7097, -2.5437 | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Bolton Road grid connection is the 2,126th-largest of 2,533 grid connections in England and the 3,280th-largest of 3,903 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 2.25 MW is <0.1% of the 446,745 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 | 2,126th of 2,533 | 319,370 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 3,280th of 3,903 | 446,745 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 7,284th of 7,928 | 1,372,494 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 408 substations, 385 power plants (116 operating, 1,120 MW), 19 data centers, 2 transmission lines and 1 gas storage facility, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Withnell LFS | Power plant | 2.3 MW | Operating | 0.3 km |
| Feniscowles | Substation | — | — | 1.5 km |
| Albion St | Substation | — | — | 4.1 km |
| Griffin | Substation | — | — | 4.6 km |
| Land off Tithe Barn lane | Power plant | 5 MW | Cancelled | 5.2 km |
| Tithe Barn Lane | Power plant | 8 MW | Cancelled | 5.2 km |
| East Irish Sea Transmission Project | Transmission line | — | Planned | 23 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 1551100328) | Data center | — | — | 27 km |
| Evolution @ Agecroft Commerce Park | Data center | — | — | 27 km |
Holder, grid operator and place
More from Biffa Waste Services Limited
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- Silver Lane 5 grid connection2 MW
- Waste 1.9 MW grid connection at Wroughton1.9 MW
- Clifton Hall Landfill grid connection1.46 MW
- Waste 1.14 MW grid connection at Newport1.14 MW
- Ravenhead Landfill grid connection1.1 MW
- Landfill gas 1.045 MW grid connection at Redlynch1.05 MW
- Rixton Old Hall grid connection1.03 MW
Other grid connections in England
- Bute Hydrogen Project 1 grid connection4,800 MW
- Drax BECCS grid connection3,906 MW
- Drax Power Station grid connection3,906 MW
- 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
- Hinkley Point C grid connection3,340 MW
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- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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