Power plant · Stockport, England, United Kingdom
Ashton Road, Bredbury - Battery Energy Storage
Ashton Road, Bredbury - Battery Energy Storage is a permitted battery storage plant in Stockport, England, United Kingdom, with 75 MW of capacity, operated by Cragside Energy 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 | Stockport (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | West Of Ashton Road Bredbury, SK6 2QE | 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 | 24 Jul 2025 (permit DC/094002, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Stockport) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 6 Jan 2025 (reference DC/094002, planning authority Stockport) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 24 Jul 2025 (granted, reference DC/094002, planning authority Stockport) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Cragside Energy Limited (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 75 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 | 53.4264, -2.1178 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this power plant and its operator.Who owns it up to the parent company, its grid connection and planning status, and an introduction to the operator.
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Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Permit granted (planning authority Stockport, reference DC/094002)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Stockport, reference DC/094002)
How it compares
Ashton Road, Bredbury - Battery Energy Storage is the 321st-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 559th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 75 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 | 321st of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 559th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 1,519th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 471 substations, 401 grid connections (219 operating, 2,091 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vernon Park BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 75 MW | Planned | 0.0 km |
| Isabella Power grid connection | Grid connection | 5 MW | Operating | 0.2 km |
| Ullswater Road grid connection | Grid connection | 3.32 MW | Operating | 0.6 km |
| Woodley | Substation | — | — | 1.0 km |
| Bredbury GSP | Substation | — | — | 1.4 km |
| Vernon Park BSP | Substation | — | — | 1.5 km |
| CDL Strata Campus Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 4.5 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 703959498) | Data center | — | — | 6.1 km |
| Equinix MA4 | Data center | — | — | 8.8 km |
Operator and place
Grid connections attached to this power plant
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- Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
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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.
- SP Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- 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.
- Rare Context entity resolution. Rare Context entity resolution, CC0 1.0.
- 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.