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Northfleet East Grid grid connection

Northfleet East Grid grid connection is a planned grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 35 MW of capacity, held by Aton Energy Development Limited.

Map: where Northfleet East Grid grid connection lies
51.4277, 0.3311 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 Northfleet East 33kV)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
HolderAton Energy Development LimitedUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Attached toNew Barn Road - Battery Energy Storage Facility (matched by coordinates+technology+capacity+company, 1.34 km away)Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Capacity35 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 date6 Jan 2017UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Connection date30 Jun 2025 (target energisation)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Voltage33 kVUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates51.4277, 0.3311UK 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.

  1. Permit granted: New Barn Road - Battery Energy Storage Facility (planning authority Dartford, reference 23/00863/FUL)
  2. Permit applied for: New Barn Road - Battery Energy Storage Facility (planning authority Dartford, reference 23/00863/FUL)

How it compares

Northfleet East Grid grid connection is the 1,015th-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 1,445th-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 35 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
England1,015th of 3,539341,715 MW<0.1%
United Kingdom1,445th of 4,870467,981 MW<0.1%
All grid connections in our data4,735th 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. Was due to connect; the register does not list it as connected

Nearby

Within 50 km of this grid connection: 485 substations, 340 power plants (131 operating, 8,058 MW), 79 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 1 transmission line and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

NameKindSizeStatusDistance
Northfleet East 33kVSubstation——0.0 km
Foxhounds Lane, Southfleet - Battery StoragePower plant300 MWCancelled0.7 km
Thames Way, Northfleet - Battery Energy StoragePower plant100 MWPlanned1.1 km
Ebbsfleet 11KVSubstation——1.3 km
New Barn Road - Battery Energy Storage FacilityPower plant35 MWPermitted1.3 km
Gravesend South 11kVSubstation——2.2 km
CustodianDC DA2Data center——5.8 km
Fujitsu Data CentreData center——7.3 km
OVH data center, EnglandData center——13 km

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