Power plant · Blackpool, England, United Kingdom
Bristol Avenue - Battery Energy Storage Facility
Bristol Avenue - Battery Energy Storage Facility is a cancelled battery storage plant in Blackpool, England, United Kingdom, with 25 MW of capacity, operated by Henco International 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 | Blackpool (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | 281 BRISTOL AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0JF | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Cancelled (planning permission granted, permission expired) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 11 May 2021 (permit 21/0246, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Blackpool) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 21 Jan 2021 (reference 21/0246, planning authority Blackpool) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 11 May 2021 (granted, reference 21/0246, planning authority Blackpool) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Henco International Limited (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 25 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 | 53.8505, -3.0257 | 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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- Permit granted (planning authority Blackpool, reference 21/0246)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Blackpool, reference 21/0246)
How it compares
Bristol Avenue - Battery Energy Storage Facility is the 748th-largest of 4,035 power plants in England and the 1,250th-largest of 5,834 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 25 MW is <0.1% of the 200,500 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 | 748th of 4,035 | 134,434 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,250th of 5,834 | 200,500 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants in our data | 5,844th of 15,799 | 1,918,113 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 235 grid connections (130 operating, 1,456 MW), 158 substations, 2 transmission lines, 1 gas storage facility and 1 data center, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol Avenue grid connection | Grid connection | 20 MW | Operating | 0.1 km |
| Isle of Man Interconnector grid connection | Grid connection | 67 MW | Operating | 0.1 km |
| Bispham BSP | Substation | — | — | 0.1 km |
| Bristol Ave BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 25.3 MW | Operating | 0.2 km |
| Bispham | Substation | — | — | 0.8 km |
| Warbreck | Substation | — | — | 1.5 km |
| Preesall Saltfield Underground Gas Storage | Gas storage facility | — | Cancelled | 7.0 km |
| Morgan and Morecambe Offshore Wind Farms Transmission Assets | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 9.3 km |
| East Irish Sea Transmission Project | Transmission line | — | Planned | 19 km |
Operator and place
Grid connections attached to this power plant
Other power plants in England
- Drax Power Station Biomass Units2,580 MW
- Ratcliffe-on-Soar2,021 MW
- Cottam2,000 MW
- Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
- West Burton2,000 MW
- Eggborough1,960 MW
- Staythorpe1,828 MW
- Fiddler’s Ferry1,510 MW
Data on this page
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
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