Power plant · East Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Anchor Lane, Burwell - Battery Energy Storage
Anchor Lane, Burwell - Battery Energy Storage is a permitted battery storage plant in East Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, with 50 MW of capacity, operated by Burwell AL 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 | East Cambridgeshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Anchor Lane, Newnham Drove, Burwell, Cambridge, CB25 0BN | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Permitted (planning permission granted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 20 May 2025 (permit 24/00160/ESF, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by East Cambridgeshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 1 Jul 2024 (reference 24/00160/ESF, planning authority East Cambridgeshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 20 May 2025 (granted, reference 24/00160/ESF, planning authority East Cambridgeshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Burwell AL Limited (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 50 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Battery (stand-alone storage) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 52.2882, 0.3042 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit granted (planning authority East Cambridgeshire, reference 24/00160/ESF)
- Permit applied for (planning authority East Cambridgeshire, reference 24/00160/ESF)
How it compares
Anchor Lane, Burwell - Battery Energy Storage is the 452nd-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 798th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 50 MW is <0.1% of the 279,068 MW of power plants planned, permitted or under construction we hold for the United Kingdom. It is not built yet, so it is ranked among the power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data, apart from the ones running today. Ranks and totals cover the ones that report their capacity.
| Within | Rank | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 452nd of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 798th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 1,895th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 7 data centers and 2 transmission lines, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 5, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redcentric Cambridge | Data center | — | — | 12 km |
| West Cambridge Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 18 km |
| US Air Force data center, Brandon | Data center | — | — | 21 km |
| Kings Lynn B Connection Project | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 48 km |
| Bramford to Twinstead | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 49 km |
Operator and place
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Data on this page
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.