Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Waterswallows 1 Battery grid connection
Waterswallows 1 Battery grid connection is a grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 14 MW of capacity, held by Lomas Distribution 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 | WATERSWALLOWS 1 BATTERY grid connection | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Location | England (connects at Buxton) | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Operating (connected) | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Holder | Lomas Distribution Limited | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 14 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 |
| Connection date | 6 Jun 2024 | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 33 kV | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.2656, -1.8913 | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Waterswallows 1 Battery grid connection is the 1,231st-largest of 2,533 grid connections in England and the 1,950th-largest of 3,903 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 14 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 | 1,231st of 2,533 | 319,370 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,950th of 3,903 | 446,745 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 5,482nd of 7,616 | 1,281,251 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 380 power plants (119 operating, 1,015 MW), 129 substations, 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waterswallows Road - Buxton Battery Storage Equipment | Power plant | 15 MW | Operating | 1.3 km |
| Waterswallows Road - Buxton Battery Storage Equipment | Power plant | 15 MW | Operating | 1.3 km |
| Hardybarn Lane, Green Fairfield - Battery Energy Storage Facility | Power plant | 40 MW | Planned | 1.7 km |
| Hope | Substation | — | — | 12 km |
| CDL Strata Campus Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 25 km |
| Baslow Road | Substation | — | — | 25 km |
| Snaithing Park Road | Substation | — | — | 27 km |
| Datum Datacentres (MCR2) | Data center | — | — | 27 km |
| Delta House | Data center | — | — | 27 km |
Holder, grid operator and place
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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.