Power plant · Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Butts Field, Mill Lane - Battery Storage
Butts Field, Mill Lane - Battery Storage is a permitted power plant in Southampton, England, United Kingdom, with 99 MW of capacity, operated by Ecotricity Generation 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 | Southampton (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Butts Field Mill Lane, Nursling, Southampton, SO19 0EP | 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 | 3 Oct 2024 (permit 23/02942/FULLS, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Southampton) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 23 Nov 2023 (reference 23/02942/FULLS, planning authority Southampton) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 3 Oct 2024 (granted, reference 23/02942/FULLS, planning authority Southampton) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Ecotricity Generation Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 99 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 | 50.8965, -1.3403 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Butts Field, Mill Lane - Battery Storage is the 319th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 526th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 99 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 | 319th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 526th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 1,440th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 230 grid connections (130 operating, 1,159 MW), 190 substations, 8 data centers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netley PV grid connection | Grid connection | 9.5 MW | Operating | 0.8 km |
| Waste 1.197 MW grid connection at Weston | Grid connection | 1.2 MW | Operating | 0.9 km |
| Netley Common BSP | Substation | — | — | 1.5 km |
| Netley Common Primary | Substation | — | — | 1.5 km |
| Weston Primary | Substation | — | — | 1.7 km |
| Nats Swanwick Solar PV grid connection | Grid connection | 3.84 MW | Planned | 4.2 km |
| Regit4u | Data center | — | — | 6.4 km |
| SCC | Data center | — | — | 7.2 km |
| Astrohouse | Data center | — | — | 7.3 km |
Operator and place
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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
- 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.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- © 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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.