Power plant · Barking and Dagenham, England, United Kingdom
Connect Waste (Chequers Lane) Power Station
Connect Waste (Chequers Lane) Power Station is a planned power plant in Barking and Dagenham, England, United Kingdom, with 20 MW of capacity, operated by Enzygo) and Riverside Energy.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Barking and Dagenham (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | 75 - 77 Chequers Lane, Barking and Dagenham, London, RM9 6QJ | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned (planning application submitted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 12 Mar 2020 (reference 20/00331/CTY, planning authority Barking and Dagenham) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Enzygo) (Riverside Energy / Enzygo, applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Riverside Energy (Riverside Energy / Enzygo, 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 | EfW Incineration | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.5183, 0.1479 | 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 applied for (planning authority Barking and Dagenham, reference 20/00331/CTY)
How it compares
Connect Waste (Chequers Lane) is the 973rd-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,574th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 20 MW is <0.1% of the 279,068 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 | 973rd of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,574th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 3,589th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 105 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 60 substations, 23 grid connections (13 operating, 101 MW), 1 transmission line 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OVH data center, England | Data center | — | — | 3.3 km |
| NTT London 1 | Data center | — | — | 3.8 km |
| Six Degrees Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 8.5 km |
| Tertiary Study grid connection | Grid connection | 57 MW | Planned | 16 km |
| North London (Electricity Line) Reinforcement | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 17 km |
| Ariel Way White City London grid connection | Grid connection | 2.2 MW | Operating | 26 km |
| NVIDIA Cambridge-1 | AI supercomputer | 202 H100e | Operating | 28 km |
| Goldsmiths Primary | Substation | — | — | 28 km |
| Volt Avenue Primary | Substation | — | — | 28 km |
Operators and place
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- Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
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- Staythorpe1,828 MW
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Data on this page
- 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.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- © 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.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.