Grid connection · England, United Kingdom

Great Orton Energy Park grid connection

Great Orton Energy Park grid connection is a planned grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 49.9 MW of capacity, connected by Electricity North West.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Name in the source	GREAT ORTON ENERGY PARK grid connection	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Location	England (connects at Harker Enwl SGTS 1 2 3A 4 / Hutton GSP Group)	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Planned (accepted to connect)	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	49.9 MW	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Wind	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Grid operator	Electricity North West	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Queue date	12 Apr 2022	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Voltage	132 kV	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	54.8755, -3.1033	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Great Orton Energy Park grid connection is the 597th-largest of 2,533 grid connections in England and the 904th-largest of 3,903 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 49.9 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	597th of 2,533	319,370 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	904th of 3,903	446,745 MW	<0.1%
All grid connections in our data	4,270th of 7,928	1,372,494 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this grid connection: 150 power plants (49 operating, 778 MW), 45 substations and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 7, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Great Orton	Power plant	4 MW	Operating	1.9 km
Great Orton Wind Farm (Extension)	Power plant	2.3 MW	Operating	2.2 km
Wigton	Substation	—	—	5.1 km
Orton Park Farm	Power plant	1.6 MW	Operating	6.4 km
Morton Park	Substation	—	—	8.7 km
Carlisle BSP	Substation	—	—	9.9 km
Cross Border Connection (England)	Transmission line	—	Planned	36 km

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Data on this page

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