Power plant · Oldham, England, United Kingdom
Chadderton - Battery energy storage facility
Chadderton - Battery energy storage facility is a power plant under construction in Oldham, England, United Kingdom, with 20 MW of capacity, operated by Field.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Oldham (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Unit 12 Howarth Court Gateway Crescent Chadderton Oldham, OL9 9XB | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Under construction | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 9 Dec 2022 (permit FUL/348758/22, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Oldham) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 8 Apr 2022 (reference FUL/348758/22, planning authority Oldham) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 9 Dec 2022 (granted, reference FUL/348758/22, planning authority Oldham) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Field | 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 (stand-alone storage) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.5320, -2.1631 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Chadderton - Battery energy storage facility is the 1,200th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,875th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 20 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 | 1,200th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,875th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 3,872nd of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 438 grid connections (242 operating, 2,189 MW), 182 substations, 22 data centers and 3 gas storage facilities, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gateway Crescent (Shaw) grid connection | Grid connection | 20 MW | Operating | 0.1 km |
| Broadgate Chadderton Generation grid connection | Grid connection | 21.1 MW | Operating | 0.3 km |
| Middleton Flexible Gas grid connection | Grid connection | 9.05 MW | Planned | 0.6 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 703959498) | Data center | — | — | 7.1 km |
| Asanti Manchester | Data center | — | — | 7.7 km |
| Equinix MA1 | Data center | — | — | 9.0 km |
| Slaithwaite | Substation | — | — | 19 km |
| Todmorden | Substation | — | — | 20 km |
| Meltham | Substation | — | — | 23 km |
Operator and place
Grid connections attached to this power plant
More from Field
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- Davies Road - Whitebirk Battery Storage25 MW · permitted
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- Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind Farm1,500 MW
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- 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.
- Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Rare Context entity resolution. Rare Context entity resolution, CC0 1.0.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.