Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Shakespeare Farm grid connection
Shakespeare Farm grid connection is a grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 1.3 MW of capacity, held by Biffa Waste Services 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 Kingsnorth Grid 11kV) | 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 | Biffa Waste Services Limited | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Kingsnorth Grid 11kV (via a primary substation) | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 1.3 MW | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Landfill gas | 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 |
| Connection date | 3 Apr 2004 | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 11 kV | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.4639, 0.6136 | 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
Shakespeare Farm grid connection is the 3,301st-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 4,567th-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1.3 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 | 3,301st of 3,539 | 341,715 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 4,567th of 4,870 | 467,981 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 8,309th of 8,618 | 1,355,288 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 348 power plants (142 operating, 7,604 MW), 304 substations, 45 data centers, 2 transmission lines and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shakespeare Farm Landfill Site | Power plant | 1 MW | Operating | 0.1 km |
| Malmaynes Hall Farm | Power plant | 12 MW | Operating | 1.0 km |
| London Medway Commercial Park | Power plant | 1.3 MW | Cancelled | 3.3 km |
| Kingsnorth Grid 11kV | Substation | — | — | 4.9 km |
| Grain 11kV | Substation | — | — | 5.7 km |
| Canvey Primary 11kV | Substation | — | — | 7.1 km |
| CityFibre Cabinets | Data center | — | — | 12 km |
| Imperium 315 | Data center | — | — | 16 km |
| Sota Datacentre | Data center | — | — | 18 km |
Holder, grid operator and place
More from Biffa Waste Services Limited
- Waste 2.65 MW grid connection at Sutton Lane2.65 MW
- Bolton Road grid connection2.25 MW
- Silver Lane 5 grid connection2 MW
- Waste 1.9 MW grid connection at Wroughton1.9 MW
- Biffa Landfill Site grid connection1.9 MW
- Clifton Hall Landfill grid connection1.46 MW
- Pebsham Landfill Site grid connection1.4 MW
- Waste 1.14 MW grid connection at Newport1.14 MW
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
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