Power plant · Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
Bristol Road Battery Storage
Bristol Road Battery Storage is a cancelled battery storage plant in Gloucester, England, United Kingdom, with 20 MW of capacity, operated by UK Power Reserve.
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 | Gloucester (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | NGPlot 6 Bristol Road Gloucester, GL2 5YA | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Cancelled (planning permission expired) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 30 Aug 2016 (reference 16/01044/FUL, planning authority Gloucester) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | UK Power Reserve (applicant) | 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 | Battery (co-located with fossil fuel plant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.8426, -2.2624 | 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 applied for (planning authority Gloucester, reference 16/01044/FUL)
How it compares
Bristol Road is the 877th-largest of 4,035 power plants in England and the 1,479th-largest of 5,834 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 20 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 | 877th of 4,035 | 134,434 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,479th of 5,834 | 200,500 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants in our data | 6,712th of 15,799 | 1,918,113 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 82 grid connections (53 operating, 784 MW), 48 substations, 9 data centers and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DXC Technology | Data center | — | — | 16 km |
| Shipton Oliffe Primary | Substation | — | — | 22 km |
| Whiteway Primary | Substation | — | — | 24 km |
| Tetbury Primary | Substation | — | — | 24 km |
| Bathurst Estates grid connection | Grid connection | 49.9 MW | Operating | 24 km |
| Cirencester Solar Park grid connection | Grid connection | 25 MW | Planned | 24 km |
| Marsh Farm B PV grid connection | Grid connection | 11.4 MW | Operating | 27 km |
| nLighten Bristol | Data center | — | — | 40 km |
| University of Bristol Isambard-AI | AI supercomputer | 5,448 H100e | Operating | 41 km |
Operator and place
More from UK Power Reserve
- Land off Queenborough Road40 MW · under construction
- Asfordby Business Park (1)23.4 MW
- Beaufort Road20 MW
- Oil Sites Road9.6 MW
- Vauxhall B (Booston Wood) grid connection20 MW
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.
- Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, 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.
- Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages. Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages, Facts only, each linked to its page.
- © 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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.
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