Grid connection · England, United Kingdom

Mythorp Road grid connection

Mythorp Road grid connection is a planned grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 75 MW of capacity, connected by Electricity North West Limited.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Name in the source	MYTHORP ROAD grid connection	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Location	England (connects at Penwortham)	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	75 MW	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Battery storage	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
Queue date	4 Jun 2024	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	53.8062, -2.9620	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Mythorp Road grid connection is the 433rd-largest of 2,533 grid connections in England and the 568th-largest of 3,903 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 75 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	433rd of 2,533	319,370 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	568th of 3,903	446,745 MW	<0.1%
All grid connections in our data	3,617th of 7,928	1,372,494 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this grid connection: 278 power plants (92 operating, 1,774 MW), 198 substations, 3 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
Cask Farm	Power plant	5 MW	Cancelled	0.1 km
Land To The South Of Todderstaffe	Power plant	4.5 MW	Operating	2.0 km
Mereside	Substation	—	—	2.1 km
Smithy Lane, Staining - Solar PV Panels & BESS	Power plant	40 MW	Planned	2.3 km
Peel BSP	Substation	—	—	2.8 km
Marton	Substation	—	—	3.5 km
Morgan and Morecambe Offshore Wind Farms Transmission Assets	Transmission line	—	Permitted	7.4 km
Preesall Saltfield Underground Gas Storage	Gas storage facility	—	Cancelled	11 km
East Irish Sea Transmission Project	Transmission line	—	Planned	17 km

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