Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Elstow Landfill Site grid connection
Elstow Landfill Site grid connection is a grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 1.76 MW of capacity, held by Renewable Power Generation Ltd.
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 Austin Canons Primary 11kV) | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Operating (connected) | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Holder | Renewable Power Generation Ltd | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Elstow Landfill Site (matched by name+coordinates+technology+capacity, 0.22 km away) | Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 1.76 MW | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Landfill gas | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | Eastern Power Networks plc (UK Power Networks, East England licence area) | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Connection date | 21 Jun 1996 | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 11 kV | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 52.1033, -0.4713 | 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.
- Commissioned: Elstow Landfill Site
- Permit granted: Elstow Landfill Site (planning authority Bedford)
- Permit applied for: Elstow Landfill Site (planning authority Bedford)
How it compares
Elstow Landfill Site grid connection is the 3,125th-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 4,330th-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1.76 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 | 3,125th of 3,539 | 341,715 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 4,330th of 4,870 | 467,981 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 8,065th of 8,618 | 1,355,288 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 456 power plants (159 operating, 2,308 MW), 154 substations and 16 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elstow Landfill Site | Power plant | 1.8 MW | Operating | 0.2 km |
| Progress Park, Elstow, Site A - Solar PV Panels | Power plant | 1 MW | Permitted | 0.8 km |
| Progress Park, Elstow, Site B - Solar Panels | Power plant | 1 MW | Permitted | 0.8 km |
| Harrowden Primary 11kV | Substation | — | — | 2.2 km |
| West Bedford Primary 11kV | Substation | — | — | 2.4 km |
| Austin Canons Grid 33kV | Substation | — | — | 2.8 km |
| Pulsant Milton Keynes SE-1 | Data center | — | — | 20 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 460010263) | Data center | — | — | 20 km |
| Starwood House | Data center | — | — | 23 km |
Holder, grid operator and place
More from Renewable Power Generation Ltd
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- Tythegston Landfill Site1.2 MW
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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.
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- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
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