Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Shore Top Farm BESS grid connection
Shore Top Farm BESS grid connection is a planned grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 11 MW of capacity, connected by Electricity North West 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Name in the source | SHORE TOP FARM BESS grid connection | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Location | England (connects at Radcliffe) | 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 |
| Attached to | Radcliffe BSP (via a primary substation) | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Shore Top Farm, Kearsley Road - Battery Energy Storage (matched by shared name+coordinates+technology+capacity, 0.58 km away) | Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 11 MW | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Battery storage | 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 | 1 Dec 2021 | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 11 kV | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.5510, -2.3388 | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit granted: Shore Top Farm, Kearsley Road - Battery Energy Storage (planning authority Bury, reference 71888)
- Permit applied for: Shore Top Farm, Kearsley Road - Battery Energy Storage (planning authority Bury, reference 71888)
How it compares
Shore Top Farm BESS grid connection is the 1,313th-largest of 2,533 grid connections in England and the 2,074th-largest of 3,903 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 11 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 | 1,313th of 2,533 | 319,370 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,074th of 3,903 | 446,745 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 5,921st of 7,928 | 1,372,494 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 431 substations, 406 power plants (113 operating, 1,060 MW), 19 data centers, 3 gas storage facilities 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radcliffe BSP | Substation | — | — | 0.2 km |
| Shore Top Farm, Kearsley Road - Battery Energy Storage | Power plant | 11 MW | Permitted | 0.6 km |
| Stoneclough - Battery Energy Storage | Power plant | 7 MW | Permitted | 1.0 km |
| Ringley | Substation | — | — | 1.4 km |
| Kearsley Local BSP | Substation | — | — | 1.6 km |
| Bent Spur Solar Farm | Power plant | 5 MW | Operating | 3.0 km |
| Evolution @ Agecroft Commerce Park | Data center | — | — | 5.3 km |
| Joule House | Data center | — | — | 9.7 km |
| Asanti Manchester | Data center | — | — | 10 km |
Grid operator and place
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- Bute Hydrogen Project 3 grid connection3,600 MW
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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.
- 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.