Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Tollgate Farm grid connection
Tollgate Farm grid connection is a grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 49.5 MW of capacity, held by Brockwell Storage & Solar 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 Elstree) | 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 | Brockwell Storage & Solar Limited | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Tollgate Farm Battery Storage (matched by name+coordinates+technology+capacity, 0.75 km away) | Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 49.5 MW | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Battery storage | 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 | 3 May 2023 | 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 | 51.7345, -0.2448 | 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.
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.
- Construction started: Tollgate Farm Battery Storage
- Permit granted: Tollgate Farm Battery Storage (planning authority Welwyn Hatfield, reference 6/2017/2340/FULL)
- Permit applied for: Tollgate Farm Battery Storage (planning authority Welwyn Hatfield, reference 6/2017/2340/FULL)
How it compares
Tollgate Farm grid connection is the 803rd-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 1,139th-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 49.5 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 | 803rd of 3,539 | 341,715 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,139th of 4,870 | 467,981 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 4,333rd of 8,618 | 1,355,288 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 548 substations, 416 power plants (151 operating, 3,192 MW), 134 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.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tollgate Farm, Welham Green - Solar Farm | Power plant | 16 MW | Planned | 0.2 km |
| Hatfield Grid 33kV | Substation | — | — | 0.3 km |
| Hatfield Primary 11kV | Substation | — | — | 0.3 km |
| Dellsome Power Hatfield Grid Station - Energy storage facility | Power plant | 5 MW | Cancelled | 0.6 km |
| Tollgate Farm Battery Storage | Power plant | 49.5 MW | Under construction | 0.8 km |
| Chantry Ln Primary 11kV | Substation | — | — | 2.3 km |
| BT Computer Centre | Data center | — | — | 6.5 km |
| Colt London North Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 8.4 km |
| Hertfordshire Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 9.1 km |
Holder, grid operator and place
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- Bute Hydrogen Project 2 grid connection3,600 MW
- Bute Hydrogen Project 3 grid connection3,600 MW
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