Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Wickham Hall grid connection
Wickham Hall grid connection is a planned grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 10 MW of capacity, held by Wickham Hall Solar Battery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Location | England (connects at Bishops Stortford Grid 33kV) | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned (accepted to connect) | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Holder | Wickham Hall Solar Battery Limited | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Wickham Hall Estate - Battery Storage (matched by shared name+coordinates+technology+capacity+company, 0.74 km away) | Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 10 MW | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Battery storage | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | Eastern Power Networks plc (UK Power Networks, East England licence area) | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Queue date | 17 Mar 2017 | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Connection date | 6 Jun 2025 (target energisation) | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 33 kV | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.8865, 0.1407 | UK Power Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
Research on this grid connection and its holder.Who holds it up to the parent company, the project behind it and its connection date, and an introduction to the holder.
Latest events
Dated events about this grid connection and the records linked to it from official notices, registers and owners' press releases, newest first. All recent changes.
- Permit granted: Wickham Hall Estate - Battery Storage (planning authority Uttlesford, reference UTT/24/1417/PINS)
- Permit applied for: Wickham Hall Estate - Battery Storage (planning authority Uttlesford, reference UTT/24/1417/PINS)
How it compares
Wickham Hall grid connection is the 1,805th-largest of 3,539 grid connections in England and the 2,551st-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 10 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.
| Within | Rank | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1,805th of 3,539 | 341,715 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,551st of 4,870 | 467,981 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 6,152nd of 8,618 | 1,355,288 MW | <0.1% |
Timeline
Dated facts about this grid connection from its sources, oldest first.
- Entered the connection queue
- Was due to connect; the register does not list it as connected
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 429 power plants (162 operating, 5,208 MW), 417 substations, 71 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 1 AI supercomputer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hadham Road | Power plant | 10 MW | Cancelled | 0.2 km |
| Wickham Hall Estate - Battery Storage | Power plant | 10 MW | Permitted | 0.7 km |
| Wickham Hall Estate Solar Photovoltaic Farm | Power plant | 20 MW | Permitted | 0.7 km |
| Bishops Stortford Grid 33kV | Substation | — | — | 0.9 km |
| Hanger Lea Primary 11kV | Substation | — | — | 2.1 km |
| Newtown Primary 11kV | Substation | — | — | 2.3 km |
| Kao Data KLON-02 | Data center | — | — | 13 km |
| NVIDIA Cambridge-1 | AI supercomputer | 202 H100e | Operating | 13 km |
| Kao Data KLON-01 | Data center | — | — | 13 km |
Holder, grid operator and place
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- Bute Hydrogen Project 3 grid connection3,600 MW
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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.
- Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, 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.
- UK Power Networks. UK Power Networks open data portal, CC BY 4.0.