Power plant · Cheshire West and Chester, England, United Kingdom
Aston Grange, Aston - Solar Panels & Battery Energy Storage System
Aston Grange, Aston - Solar Panels & Battery Energy Storage System is a planned power plant in Cheshire West and Chester, England, United Kingdom, with 20 MW of capacity, operated by Innova Renewables.
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 | Cheshire West and Chester (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Aston Grange, Aston, Runcorn, WA7 3DG | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned (planning application submitted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 24 Feb 2025 (reference 25/00100/FULEIA, planning authority Cheshire West and Chester) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Innova Renewables | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 20 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Solar Photovoltaics | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Area | 55.2 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.2961, -2.6495 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit applied for (planning authority Cheshire West and Chester, reference 25/00100/FULEIA)
How it compares
Aston Grange, Aston - Solar Panels & Battery Energy Storage System is the 1,200th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,875th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 20 MW is <0.1% of the 300,461 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 | 1,200th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,875th of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 3,872nd of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 267 substations, 249 grid connections (141 operating, 1,209 MW), 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Babbage Centre | Data center | — | — | 6.3 km |
| Iron Mountain | Data center | — | — | 13 km |
| Verizon Warrington | Data center | — | — | 14 km |
| Keuper Underground Gas Storage Facility Material Change 1 | Gas storage facility | — | Planned | 15 km |
| Bold GSP | Substation | — | — | 16 km |
| Keuper Gas Storage Project | Gas storage facility | — | Permitted | 16 km |
| Rixton Old Hall grid connection | Grid connection | 1.03 MW | Operating | 16 km |
| Unit 1 Junction Lane grid connection | Grid connection | 5.26 MW | Planned | 17 km |
| Parkside Railway Station grid connection | Grid connection | 3 MW | Operating | 17 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.
- 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.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.