Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Vernon Park BESS grid connection
Vernon Park BESS grid connection is a planned grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 75 MW of capacity, held by Cragside Energy 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 | VERNON PARK BESS grid connection | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Location | England (connects at Vernon Park) | 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 |
| Holder | Cragside Energy Limited | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Ashton Road, Bredbury - Battery Energy Storage (matched by coordinates+technology+capacity+company, 0.01 km away) | Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Vernon Park BSP (via a bulk supply point) | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 75 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 | 14 Sept 2023 | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 132 kV | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.4263, -2.1178 | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Vernon Park BESS grid connection is the 433rd-largest of 2,533 grid connections in England and the 568th-largest of 3,903 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 75 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 | 433rd of 2,533 | 319,370 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 568th of 3,903 | 446,745 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 3,617th of 7,928 | 1,372,494 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 471 substations, 383 power plants (109 operating, 1,101 MW), 22 data centers and 3 gas storage facilities, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashton Road, Bredbury - Battery Energy Storage | Power plant | 75 MW | Permitted | 0.0 km |
| Bredbury Park Way - AD Stockport (Waste AD) | Power plant | 2 MW | Operating | 0.5 km |
| Woodley | Substation | — | — | 1.0 km |
| Welkin Mill | Power plant | 49.9 MW | Unknown | 1.1 km |
| Bredbury GSP | Substation | — | — | 1.3 km |
| Vernon Park BSP | Substation | — | — | 1.5 km |
| CDL Strata Campus Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 4.5 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 703959498) | Data center | — | — | 6.1 km |
| Equinix MA4 | Data center | — | — | 8.9 km |
Holder, grid operator and place
More from Cragside Energy Limited
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- Crondall Road, Crondall - Fleet Bramley Battery Energy Storage99.9 MW · permitted
- Golf Road - Battery Energy Storage90 MW · permitted
- North Side Bay Gateway, Heysham - Battery Energy Storage90 MW · permitted
- Ashton Road, Bredbury - Battery Energy Storage75 MW · permitted
- Greenfield Road, Westoning - Battery Energy Storage System30 MW · permitted
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- 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
Data on this page
- California ISO. The terms cover every document on caiso.com, the cluster reports included. CAISO queue report, CAISO Privacy and Terms of Use.
- DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD). 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.