Grid connection · England, United Kingdom

Lnd Sacketts Hill Farm grid connection

Lnd Sacketts Hill Farm grid connection is a planned grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 22.5 MW of capacity, held by RPC Thanet Energy Ltd.

51.3680, 1.4021 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.

Fact	Value	Source
Location	England (connects at Thanet Grid 33kV)	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	RPC Thanet Energy Ltd	UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Attached to	Sacketts Hill Farm - Battery Energy Storage System (matched by shared name+coordinates+technology+capacity, 0.24 km away)	Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Capacity	22.5 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	2 Sept 2023	UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Connection date	20 Nov 2036 (target energisation)	UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Voltage	33 kV	UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates	51.3680, 1.4021	UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026

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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.

17 Sept 2025Permit granted: Sacketts Hill Farm - Battery Energy Storage System (22 MW, dated by the press release) · source
6 Aug 2025Permit granted: Sacketts Hill Farm - Battery Energy Storage System (appeal granted, planning authority Thanet, reference F/TH/24/0575)
6 Aug 2025Permit granted: Sacketts Hill Farm - Battery Energy Storage System (planning authority Thanet, reference F/TH/24/0575)
29 Aug 2024Permit refused: Sacketts Hill Farm - Battery Energy Storage System (planning authority Thanet, reference F/TH/24/0575)
30 May 2024Permit applied for: Sacketts Hill Farm - Battery Energy Storage System (planning authority Thanet, reference F/TH/24/0575)

How it compares

Lnd Sacketts Hill Farm grid connection is the 1,258th-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 1,833rd-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 22.5 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	1,258th of 3,539	341,715 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	1,833rd of 4,870	467,981 MW	<0.1%
All grid connections in our data	5,205th of 8,618	1,355,288 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

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

2 Sept 2023Entered the connection queue
20 Nov 2036Due to connect

Nearby

Within 50 km of this grid connection: 129 power plants (52 operating, 4,554 MW), 47 substations, 2 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
Sacketts Hill Farm - Battery Energy Storage System	Power plant	22 MW	Permitted	0.2 km
Thanet 11kV	Substation	—	—	0.9 km
Thanet Grid 33kV	Substation	—	—	0.9 km
St Peters 11kV	Substation	—	—	1.1 km
Manston Solar Farm extension (Westwood)	Power plant	9.2 MW	Operating	2.4 km
Hengrove Farm, Shottendane Road - Solar Farm	Power plant	30 MW	Permitted	2.7 km
Richborough Connection Project	Transmission line	—	Permitted	13 km
The Bunker - South East Data Centre	Data center	—	—	13 km
Sota Datacentre	Data center	—	—	47 km

Holder, grid operator and place

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Data on this page

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