Power plant · Staffordshire Moorlands, England, United Kingdom
Brown Edge - Battery Storage
Brown Edge - Battery Storage is a permitted power plant in Staffordshire Moorlands, England, United Kingdom, with 49.5 MW of capacity, operated by Anesco.
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 | Staffordshire Moorlands (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Bemersley Road, Brown Edge, ST6 | 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 | 7 May 2025 (permit SMD/2022/0076, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Staffordshire Moorlands) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 4 Mar 2022 (reference SMD/2022/0076, planning authority Staffordshire Moorlands) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 7 May 2025 (granted, reference SMD/2022/0076, planning authority Staffordshire Moorlands) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Anesco | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 49.5 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 | 53.0764, -2.1570 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Brown Edge - Battery Storage is the 768th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,223rd-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 49.5 MW is <0.1% of the 300,661 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 | 768th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,223rd of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 2,305th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 266 grid connections (73 operating, 595 MW), 152 substations, 15 data centers, 3 gas storage facilities and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battery storage 49.35 MW grid connection at Cellarhead 132Kv | Grid connection | — | — | 0.7 km |
| Chatterley Whitfield, Outclough Farm, Chatterley Whitfield Energy Storage grid connection | Grid connection | — | — | 1.3 km |
| Plot 3, Knypersley Power grid connection | Grid connection | — | — | 2.9 km |
| Internet Central data center, England | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
| S.E. Macclesfield | Substation | — | — | 20 km |
| S.W. Macclesfield | Substation | — | — | 20 km |
| Salinae Hydrogen Storage project | Gas storage facility | — | Planned | 21 km |
| Withyfold Drive | Substation | — | — | 21 km |
| Keuper Gas Storage Project | Gas storage facility | — | Permitted | 25 km |
Operator and place
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- Newton Wood Farm49.9 MW · permitted
- Rothienorman - Battery Storage49.9 MW · permitted
- Turf Carr Solar Farm49.9 MW · permitted
- Overton Grange, Overton Road - Solar Farm Battery Energy Storage49.9 MW · planned
- Low Farm Solar Farm49.9 MW · under construction
- Brentwood nergy Storage System49.9 MW · permitted
Other power plants in England
- 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
- DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD). 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.
- NGED Connected Data portal. NGED Connected Data portal, Terms not verified.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects. 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.