Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Owls Hatch Road grid connection
Owls Hatch Road grid connection is a planned grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 50 MW of capacity, held by Root Power South Limited.
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 Canterbury North 132kV) | 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 | Root Power South Limited | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Owls Hatch Road, Thanet Way - Battery Energy Storage Facility (matched by shared name+coordinates+technology+capacity, 0.25 km away) | Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 50 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 | 12 Aug 2023 | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 132 kV | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.3529, 1.0950 | 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.
- Permit granted: Owls Hatch Road, Thanet Way - Battery Energy Storage Facility (planning authority Canterbury, reference CA/24/02262)
- Permit applied for: Owls Hatch Road, Thanet Way - Battery Energy Storage Facility (planning authority Canterbury, reference CA/24/02262)
How it compares
Owls Hatch Road grid connection is the 604th-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 862nd-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 50 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 | 604th of 3,539 | 341,715 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 862nd of 4,870 | 467,981 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 3,969th of 8,618 | 1,355,288 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 209 power plants (80 operating, 6,607 MW), 114 substations, 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herne Bay 11kV | Substation | — | — | 0.1 km |
| Herne Bay Grid 33kV | Substation | — | — | 0.2 km |
| Thanet Way, Herne Bay Solar Farm | Power plant | 20 MW | Cancelled | 0.2 km |
| Owls Hatch Road, Thanet Way - Battery Energy Storage Facility | Power plant | 50 MW | Permitted | 0.3 km |
| Owls Hatch Road | Power plant | 48 MW | Operating | 0.5 km |
| Whitstable 11kV | Substation | — | — | 4.3 km |
| Richborough Connection Project | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 11 km |
| The Bunker - South East Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 17 km |
| Sota Datacentre | Data center | — | — | 26 km |
Holder, grid operator and place
More from Root Power South Limited
- Tillingdown Farm grid connection12 MW
- Bletchingley Central grid connection1 MW
- Remembrance Way - Battery Energy Storage System99 MW · permitted
- Withy Place, Bramley Road - Battery Energy Storage50 MW · permitted
- Hillcrest, Church Road - Battery Energy Storage50 MW
- Pen Y Maes, Ashby Road - Battery Energy Storage50 MW
- Owls Hatch Road, Thanet Way - Battery Energy Storage Facility50 MW · permitted
- Brinsworth Road, Brinsworth - Battery Energy storage40 MW · planned
Other grid connections in England
- Bute Hydrogen Project 1 grid connection4,800 MW
- Drax BECCS grid connection3,906 MW
- Drax Power Station grid connection3,906 MW
- 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
- Hinkley Point C grid connection3,340 MW
Data on this page
- California ISO. CAISO queue report, CAISO Privacy and Terms of Use.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
- SP Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- ERCOT GIS report. ERCOT GIS report, ERCOT Terms of Use.
- Supported by National Energy SO Open Data. NESO TEC Register, NESO Open Data Licence v1.0.
- Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
- NYISO interconnection queue. NYISO interconnection queue, Free reuse.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- PJM New Services Queue. PJM New Services Queue, Free reuse.
- Rare Context entity resolution. Rare Context entity resolution, CC0 1.0.
- SP Energy Networks, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Energy Networks open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- UK Power Networks. UK Power Networks open data portal, CC BY 4.0.