Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Peterborough Power Station grid connection
Peterborough Power Station grid connection is a grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 48.5 MW of capacity, held by River Nene Power 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 Walpole) | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Operating (connected) | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Holder | River Nene Power Limited | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 48.5 MW | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Gas | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | Eastern Power Networks plc (UK Power Networks, East England licence area) | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Connection date | 20 Aug 2018 | 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 | 52.5768, -0.2039 | 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.
How it compares
Peterborough Power Station grid connection is the 833rd-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 1,176th-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 48.5 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 | 833rd of 3,539 | 341,715 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,176th of 4,870 | 467,981 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 4,381st of 8,618 | 1,355,288 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 390 power plants (139 operating, 4,879 MW), 68 substations, 6 data centers and 3 transmission lines, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peterborough EfW | Power plant | 7.3 MW | Operating | 0.1 km |
| Peterborough Energy Park (Green Energy Parks - Gasification) | Power plant | 81 MW | Cancelled | 0.2 km |
| Peterborough Power Station PPL2 Gas Engines | Power plant | 49 MW | Operating | 0.2 km |
| Peterborough East Grid 11kV | Substation | — | — | 1.5 km |
| Peterborough Central 11kV | Substation | — | — | 2.8 km |
| Peterborough Central 33kV | Substation | — | — | 2.9 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 87850427) | Data center | — | — | 4.6 km |
| Positive Park | Data center | — | — | 18 km |
| The Horizon Centre | Data center | — | — | 31 km |
Holder, grid operator and place
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Data on this page
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