Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Welkin Road grid connection
Welkin Road grid connection is a planned grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 21.1 MW of capacity, held by Power Initiatives 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 | WELKIN ROAD 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 | Power Initiatives Limited | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · 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 |
| Attached to | Welkin Road, Bredbury - Battery Storage System (matched by shared name+coordinates+technology+capacity, 0.04 km away) | Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 21.1 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 | 18 Apr 2019 | 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 | 53.4171, -2.1327 | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Commissioned: Welkin Road, Bredbury - Battery Storage System
- Permit granted: Welkin Road, Bredbury - Battery Storage System (planning authority Stockport, reference DC/078965)
- Permit applied for: Welkin Road, Bredbury - Battery Storage System (planning authority Stockport, reference DC/078965)
How it compares
Welkin Road grid connection is the 986th-largest of 2,533 grid connections in England and the 1,602nd-largest of 3,903 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 21.1 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 | 986th of 2,533 | 319,370 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,602nd of 3,903 | 446,745 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 5,195th of 7,928 | 1,372,494 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 453 substations, 386 power plants (108 operating, 1,059 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Welkin Road, Bredbury - Battery Storage System | Power plant | 20 MW | Operating | 0.0 km |
| Welkin Mill, Welkin Road - Battery Storage | Power plant | 49.9 MW | Under construction | 0.1 km |
| Vernon Park BSP | Substation | — | — | 0.1 km |
| Bredbury Substation - Battery Storage Facility | Power plant | 49.9 MW | Under construction | 0.3 km |
| Bredbury GSP | Substation | — | — | 0.3 km |
| Portwood | Substation | — | — | 1.3 km |
| CDL Strata Campus Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 3.2 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 703959498) | Data center | — | — | 6.4 km |
| Equinix MA4 | Data center | — | — | 8.5 km |
Holder, grid operator and place
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- 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. CAISO queue report, CAISO Privacy and Terms of Use.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. 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.