Power plant · Sefton, England, United Kingdom
Crossens Pumping Station - Solar Array
Crossens Pumping Station - Solar Array is a permitted power plant in Sefton, England, United Kingdom, with 1 MW of capacity, operated by Environment Agency.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Sefton (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Crossens Pumping Station Banks Road Banks, PR9 | 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 | 25 Feb 2022 (permit 2021/0937/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Sefton) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 19 Aug 2021 (reference 2021/0937/FUL, planning authority Sefton) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 25 Feb 2022 (granted, reference 2021/0937/FUL, planning authority Sefton) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Environment Agency | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 1 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Solar Photovoltaics | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Area | 2.86 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.6486, -2.9676 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Crossens Pumping Station - Solar Array is the 2,080th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 3,100th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1 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 | 2,080th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 3,100th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 6,333rd of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 268 grid connections (154 operating, 1,351 MW), 9 data centers, 2 transmission lines and 1 gas storage facility, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Landsdale Nurseries grid connection | Grid connection | 6 MW | Operating | 4.0 km |
| Melrow Nursery grid connection | Grid connection | 3.4 MW | Operating | 6.4 km |
| Asland Walks Energy Park grid connection | Grid connection | 4.5 MW | Planned | 11 km |
| Morgan and Morecambe Offshore Wind Farms Transmission Assets | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 15 km |
| Preesall Saltfield Underground Gas Storage | Gas storage facility | — | Cancelled | 29 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 1551100328) | Data center | — | — | 29 km |
| East Irish Sea Transmission Project | Transmission line | — | Planned | 30 km |
| nLighten Edge Data Centre Liverpool | Data center | — | — | 34 km |
| Iron Mountain | Data center | — | — | 34 km |
Operator and place
Other power plants in England
- 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.
- 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.