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Crockstead Farm grid connection

Crockstead Farm grid connection is a planned grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 99.9 MW of capacity, held by LH DNO Grid Services Limited.

Map: where Crockstead Farm grid connection lies
50.9403, 0.1244 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 Little Horsted)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
StatusPlanned (accepted to connect)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
HolderLH DNO Grid Services LimitedUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Capacity99.9 MWUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
TechnologyBattery storageUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Grid operatorSouth 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 date10 May 2022UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Connection date31 Oct 2037 (target energisation)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Voltage132 kVUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates50.9403, 0.1244UK 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

Crockstead Farm 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.

WithinRankTotalShare
England355th of 3,539341,715 MW<0.1%
United Kingdom458th of 4,870467,981 MW<0.1%
All grid connections in our data3,209th of 8,6181,355,288 MW<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this grid connection from its sources, oldest first.

  1. Entered the connection queue
  2. Due to connect

Nearby

Within 50 km of this grid connection: 160 substations, 141 power plants (53 operating, 1,248 MW) and 12 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

NameKindSizeStatusDistance
Stable Green, Sand Hill Lane - Battery Energy Storage SystemPower plant600 MWPermitted1.0 km
Bentley EstatePower plant5 MWOperating1.0 km
Uckfield 11kVSubstation——3.9 km
Uckfield Solar Electric ForecourtPower plant5.5 MWCancelled4.3 km
Buxted 11kVSubstation——5.4 km
Lewes Grid 33kVSubstation——8.3 km
Goldman Sachs data center, East GrinsteadData center——25 km
Digital Realty LGW15Data center——30 km
Digital Realty LGW16Data center——30 km

Holder, grid operator and place

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