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Riverside Energy Park grid connection

Riverside Energy Park grid connection is a planned grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 88.6 MW of capacity, connected by London Power Networks plc (UK Power Networks, London licence area).

Map: where Riverside Energy Park grid connection lies
51.5045, 0.1581 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 Littlebrook 132kV (LPN))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
Attached toRiverside Energy Park (matched by name+coordinates+technology, 0.36 km away)Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Attached toRiverside Energy Park (REP) (matched by name+coordinates+technology+capacity, 0.11 km away)Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Capacity88.6 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
TechnologyWasteUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Grid operatorLondon Power Networks plc (UK Power Networks, London licence area)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Queue date14 Feb 2022UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Connection date14 Apr 2026 (target energisation)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Voltage132 kVUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates51.5045, 0.1581UK 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. Construction started: Riverside Energy Park (REP)
  2. Permit granted: Riverside Energy Park (planning authority The Planning Inspectorate, reference EN010093) · source
  3. Permit granted: Riverside Energy Park (REP) (planning authority The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure, reference EN010093)
  4. Permit applied for: Riverside Energy Park (planning authority The Planning Inspectorate, reference EN010093) · source
  5. Permit applied for: Riverside Energy Park (REP) (planning authority The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure, reference EN010093)

How it compares

Riverside Energy Park grid connection is the 443rd-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 567th-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 88.6 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
England443rd of 3,539341,715 MW<0.1%
United Kingdom567th of 4,870467,981 MW<0.1%
All grid connections in our data3,374th 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: 559 substations, 390 power plants (139 operating, 7,537 MW), 103 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
Cory Decarbonisation ProjectPower plant—Permitted0.0 km
Riverside Resource Recovery Facility Battery StoragePower plant2.5 MWUnder construction0.1 km
Riverside - Energy from WastePower plant80.5 MWOperating0.1 km
OVH data center, EnglandData center——1.6 km
Manor Way Primary 11kVSubstation——2.6 km
Erith 11kVSubstation——2.9 km
Chequers Primary 11kVSubstation——2.9 km
NTT London 1Data center——4.9 km
Fujitsu Data CentreData center——8.2 km

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