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Grid connection · England, United Kingdom

Units 1&2 Midland Est ICP grid connection

Units 1&2 Midland Est ICP grid connection is a grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 1.9 MW of capacity, held by PowerCon (UK) Limited.

Map: where Units 1&2 Midland Est ICP grid connection lies
51.5221, 0.1812 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 Manor Way Primary 11kV)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
StatusOperating (connected)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
HolderPowerCon (UK) LimitedUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Attached toManor Way Primary 11kV (via a primary substation)UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Capacity1.9 MWUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
TechnologyLandfill gasUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Grid operatorEastern 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 date5 Apr 2016UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Voltage11 kVUK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates51.5221, 0.1812UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Units 1&2 Midland Est ICP grid connection is the 3,079th-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 4,256th-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1.9 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
England3,079th of 3,539341,715 MW<0.1%
United Kingdom4,256th of 4,870467,981 MW<0.1%
All grid connections in our data7,990th of 8,6181,355,288 MW<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this grid connection: 547 substations, 396 power plants (143 operating, 7,666 MW), 101 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
Manor Way Primary 11kVSubstation——0.0 km
Riverside Sewage Treatment Works Digestion PlantPower plant4 MWOperating0.8 km
East London Sustainable Energy Facility (Thames Gateway Power facility)Power plant25 MWCancelled1.4 km
Frog Island AD Plant (Waste AD)Power plant5 MWCancelled1.6 km
Chequers Primary 11kVSubstation——2.5 km
NTT London 1Data center——2.8 km
Rainham Primary 11kVSubstation——2.9 km
OVH data center, EnglandData center——3.5 km
Fujitsu Data CentreData center——7.7 km

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