Power plant · Knowsley, England, United Kingdom
Coopers Lane, Kirkby - Battery Storage Facility
Coopers Lane, Kirkby - Battery Storage Facility is a permitted power plant in Knowsley, England, United Kingdom, with 49.5 MW of capacity, operated by Pelagic Energy.
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 | Knowsley (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Coopers Lane, Kirkby, Liverpool, L33 7TT | 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 | 30 Apr 2024 (permit 23/02008/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Knowsley) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 27 Jul 2023 (reference 23/02008/FUL, planning authority Knowsley) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 30 Apr 2024 (granted, reference 23/02008/FUL, planning authority Knowsley) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Pelagic Energy | 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 | 53.4688, -2.8477 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Coopers Lane, Kirkby - Battery Storage Facility is the 769th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,224th-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 | 769th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,224th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 2,306th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 317 grid connections (182 operating, 1,589 MW), 300 substations, 17 data centers, 4 gas storage facilities and 2 transmission lines, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bickerstaffe WTW grid connection | Grid connection | 1.25 MW | Operating | 6.9 km |
| Pimbo Road grid connection | Grid connection | 21.1 MW | Operating | 8.8 km |
| Pennine Place grid connection | Grid connection | 2.3 MW | Operating | 9.1 km |
| Pimbo | Substation | — | — | 9.2 km |
| Willow HEY | Substation | — | — | 9.8 km |
| Washway Farm / Kirkby GSP | Substation | — | — | 11 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 1551100328) | Data center | — | — | 14 km |
| Iron Mountain | Data center | — | — | 16 km |
| nLighten Edge Data Centre Liverpool | Data center | — | — | 16 km |
Operator and place
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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
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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.
- © 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.