Power plant · St. Helens, England, United Kingdom
Biffa Electricity Generating Compound, Burtonhead Road - Battery Storage
Biffa Electricity Generating Compound, Burtonhead Road - Battery Storage is a permitted power plant in St. Helens, England, United Kingdom, with 1 MW of capacity, operated by Biffa Waste Services 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 | St. Helens (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Biffa Electricity Generating Compound And Gas Control Compound Former Ravenhead Landfill Site Burtonhead Road, WA9 5EA | 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 | 18 Oct 2022 (permit P/2022/0557/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by St. Helens) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 4 Aug 2022 (reference P/2022/0557/FUL, planning authority St. Helens) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 18 Oct 2022 (granted, reference P/2022/0557/FUL, planning authority St. Helens) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Biffa Waste Services Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 1 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 | 53.4470, -2.7383 | 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.
Request researchLatest events
Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Permit granted (planning authority St. Helens, reference P/2022/0557/FUL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority St. Helens, reference P/2022/0557/FUL)
How it compares
Biffa Electricity Generating Compound, Burtonhead Road - Battery Storage is the 2,080th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 3,100th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1 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 | 2,080th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 3,100th of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 6,333rd of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 340 grid connections (189 operating, 1,739 MW), 329 substations, 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bold GSP | Substation | — | — | 3.4 km |
| Amazon Man 8 grid connection | Grid connection | 1.39 MW | Planned | 5.5 km |
| Billinge Hill Quarry Landfill grid connection | Grid connection | 1.03 MW | Operating | 5.7 km |
| Lymes Wood Landfill Site grid connection | Grid connection | 1.17 MW | Operating | 6.6 km |
| Newton Le Willows | Substation | — | — | 7.1 km |
| Haydock | Substation | — | — | 7.1 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 1551100328) | Data center | — | — | 7.3 km |
| Iron Mountain | Data center | — | — | 8.0 km |
| Verizon Warrington | Data center | — | — | 9.5 km |
Operator and place
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- Skelton Grange Landfill Site, Pontefract Lane - Solar Farm4.4 MW · permitted
- Holiday Moss Landfill Site, Reeds Brow - Battery Storage3 MW · permitted
- Howden Clough Landfill, Howden Clough Road - Solar Farm2.4 MW · planned
- Former Howden Clough, Howden Clough Road - Battery Units2 MW · permitted
- Biffa Waste Services, Fochriw Road - Battery Storage2 MW · permitted
- Langhurst Wood Road - Hydrogen Generation Facility2 MW
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- Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
- Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind Farm1,500 MW
- Hornsea 2 - Optimus and Breesea1,320 MW
- Hornsea 1 - Heron & Njord1,218 MW
- Atlantic Array One - Bristol Channel Zone1,200 MW
- Five Estuaries - Wind Farm1,080 MW
- Rugeley Power Plant Conversion1,000 MW
- Teesworks Battery Storage Project1,000 MW
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.