Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Waste 1.9 MW grid connection at Upper Heyford
Waste 1.9 MW grid connection at Upper Heyford is a grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 1.9 MW of capacity, held by Viridor Waste Management 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 | Waste 1.9 MW grid connection at UPPER HEYFORD | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Location | England (connects at Upper Heyford) | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Operating (connected) | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Holder | Viridor Waste Management Limited | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Upper Heyford Primary (via a primary substation) | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 1.9 MW | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Waste | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | Southern Electric Power Distribution plc | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 11 kV | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.9319, -1.2221 | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Waste 1.9 MW grid connection at Upper Heyford is the 2,217th-largest of 2,533 grid connections in England and the 3,427th-largest of 3,903 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1.9 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 | 2,217th of 2,533 | 319,370 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 3,427th of 3,903 | 446,745 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 7,123rd of 7,616 | 1,281,251 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 349 power plants (137 operating, 1,756 MW), 76 substations and 11 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Station Road, Ardley - Solar Farm & Battery Energy Storage System | Power plant | 10.5 MW | Planned | 0.8 km |
| Station Road, Ardley - Solar Farm & Battery Energy Storage System | Power plant | 4 MW | Planned | 0.8 km |
| Ardley Fields Farm Landfill Site | Power plant | 1.8 MW | Operating | 1.7 km |
| Upper Heyford Primary | Substation | — | — | 1.9 km |
| Bicester Primary | Substation | — | — | 6.4 km |
| Bicester North Primary | Substation | — | — | 6.6 km |
| University Shared Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 19 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 1254986167) | Data center | — | — | 28 km |
| nLighten Milton Keynes | Data center | — | — | 30 km |
Holder, grid operator and place
More from Viridor Waste Management Limited
- Ardley EFW Generation grid connection24.7 MW
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- Pilsworth Power Plant grid connection4.12 MW
- Viridor Waste Management grid connection3.8 MW
- Pilsworth Landfill Site grid connection3.45 MW
- Waste 3.325 MW grid connection at Causeway3.33 MW
- Whitehead Landfill Site grid connection3.3 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
Data on this page
- California ISO. Checked 2026-10-24. 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.
- 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.