Power plant · Rochdale, England, United Kingdom

Crook Hill (Calderdale MBC) 1 of 2

Crook Hill (Calderdale MBC) 1 of 2 is a power plant in Rochdale, England, United Kingdom, with 13.6 MW of capacity, operated by InfraRed Capital Partners.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Rochdale (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Crook Hill/Shore Moor, North Of Watergrove Reservoir, Rochdale	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating (operational)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	2015	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Onshore or offshore	Onshore	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	12 Oct 2009 (permit 08/01281/WDF, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Rochdale)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	4 Aug 2008 (reference 08/01281/WDF, planning authority Rochdale)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	12 Oct 2009 (granted, reference 08/01281/WDF, planning authority Rochdale)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	InfraRed Capital Partners	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	13.6 MW	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Units	4 units (3.4 MW per unit)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Wind Onshore	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	53.6690, -2.1087	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Latest events

Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.

1 Dec 2015Commissioned
12 Oct 2009Permit granted (planning authority Rochdale, reference 08/01281/WDF)
4 Aug 2008Permit applied for (planning authority Rochdale, reference 08/01281/WDF)

How it compares

Crook Hill (Calderdale MBC) 1 of 2 is the 864th-largest of 3,430 power plants in England and the 1,535th-largest of 5,050 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 13.6 MW is <0.1% of the 115,622 MW we hold for the United Kingdom. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
England	864th of 3,430	71,965 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	1,535th of 5,050	115,622 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	5,645th of 12,032	1,190,447 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.

2015Started operating

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 539 substations, 483 grid connections (272 operating, 2,423 MW), 22 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
Crook Hill Wind Farm grid connection	Grid connection	36.3 MW	Operating	1.6 km
Littleborough	Substation	—	—	3.0 km
Whitworth	Substation	—	—	3.9 km
Clegg Hall Road, Smallbridge grid connection	Grid connection	20 MW	Planned	4.4 km
Todmorden	Substation	—	—	4.4 km
Reaps Moss Wind Farm grid connection	Grid connection	10.7 MW	Operating	5.0 km
Lloyds Banking Group Copley	Data center	—	—	15 km
Data center, England (OSM way 403124345)	Data center	—	—	15 km
Redcentric Elland Data Centre	Data center	—	—	19 km

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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.
SP Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), CC BY 4.0.
Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages. Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages, Facts only, each linked to its page.
Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
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.