Power plant · Wigan, England, United Kingdom

Atherton - Battery energy storage

Atherton - Battery energy storage is a power plant in Wigan, England, United Kingdom, with 30 MW of capacity, operated by Pulse Clean Energy Limited and FPC Electric Land Limited.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Wigan (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	R/O 9 Coal Pit Lane Atherton Manchester, M46 0RY	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating (operational)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	2025	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	29 Jul 2022 (permit A/22/93181/FULL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Wigan)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	15 Feb 2022 (reference A/22/93181/FULL, planning authority Wigan)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	29 Jul 2022 (granted, reference A/22/93181/FULL, planning authority Wigan)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Pulse Clean Energy Limited (FPC Electric Land Limited / Pulse Clean Energy)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	FPC Electric Land Limited (FPC Electric Land Limited / Pulse Clean Energy)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	30 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	53.5277, -2.5011	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Latest events

Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.

10 Sept 2025Commissioned
29 Jul 2022Permit granted (planning authority Wigan, reference A/22/93181/FULL)
15 Feb 2022Permit applied for (planning authority Wigan, reference A/22/93181/FULL)

How it compares

Atherton - Battery energy storage is the 386th-largest of 3,430 power plants in England and the 727th-largest of 5,050 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 30 MW is <0.1% of the 115,622 MW we hold for the United Kingdom. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
England	386th of 3,430	71,965 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	727th of 5,050	115,622 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	2,805th of 12,032	1,190,447 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.

2025Started operating

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 385 grid connections (210 operating, 1,951 MW), 381 substations, 20 data centers, 3 gas storage facilities and 2 transmission lines, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Coal Pit Lane grid connection	Grid connection	30 MW	Operating	0.1 km
Atherton Town Centre	Substation	—	—	0.9 km
Atherton BSP	Substation	—	—	1.5 km
Kirkhall Lane	Substation	—	—	2.7 km
Amazon MAN3 grid connection	Grid connection	2.86 MW	Planned	3.3 km
Aldi Stores Ltd grid connection	Grid connection	4.3 MW	Operating	3.4 km
Data center, England (OSM way 1551100328)	Data center	—	—	11 km
Data center, England (OSM way 1535147042)	Data center	—	—	12 km
Evolution @ Agecroft Commerce Park	Data center	—	—	13 km

Operators and place

Grid connections attached to this power plant

Coal Pit Lane grid connection30 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.
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SP Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), CC BY 4.0.
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