Grid connection · England, United Kingdom

Rigg House grid connection

Rigg House grid connection is a planned grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 150 MW of capacity, connected by Electricity North West Limited.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Name in the source	RIGG HOUSE grid connection	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Location	England (connects at Sellafield)	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	150 MW	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Solar	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	24 Nov 2022	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	54.5850, -3.5130	SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Rigg House grid connection is the 259th-largest of 2,533 grid connections in England and the 345th-largest of 3,903 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 150 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	259th of 2,533	319,370 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	345th of 3,903	446,745 MW	<0.1%
All grid connections in our data	2,236th of 7,616	1,281,251 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this grid connection: 99 power plants (42 operating, 434 MW), measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 3.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Fairfield Farm	Power plant	6.5 MW	Operating	0.6 km
Fairfield Farm	Power plant	7.8 MW	Cancelled	0.8 km
Potato Pot Wind Farm	Power plant	6 MW	Operating	2.2 km

Grid operator and place

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All 3831 grid connections in England, United Kingdom

Data on this page

California ISO. Checked 2026-10-24. CAISO queue report, CAISO Privacy and Terms of Use.
DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD). 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.
PJM New Services Queue. PJM New Services Queue, Free reuse.
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.