Power plant · South Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Culham Science Centre Battery Storage

Culham Science Centre Battery Storage is a cancelled battery storage plant in South Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, with 250 MW of capacity, operated by CESL UK Atomic Energy Authority.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	South Oxfordshire (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	UK A E A, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, OX14 3DB	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Cancelled (abandoned)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	18 Jul 2016 (reference P16/S2368/FUL, planning authority South Oxfordshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	CESL UK Atomic Energy Authority (applicant)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	250 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	51.6582, -1.2257	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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18 Jul 2016Permit applied for (planning authority South Oxfordshire, reference P16/S2368/FUL)

How it compares

Culham Science Centre is the 97th-largest of 4,035 power plants in England and the 136th-largest of 5,834 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 250 MW is 0.12% of the 200,500 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	97th of 4,035	134,434 MW	0.19%
United Kingdom	136th of 5,834	200,500 MW	0.12%
All power plants in our data	1,727th of 15,800	1,923,633 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 212 grid connections (110 operating, 1,201 MW), 201 substations and 60 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Culham Primary	Substation	—	—	0.8 km
Burcot Farm - PV and Battery grid connection	Grid connection	100 MW	Planned	2.5 km
Cowley Battery Storage grid connection	Grid connection	50 MW	Planned	3.0 km
Sutton Courtenay grid connection	Grid connection	12.5 MW	Planned	3.1 km
Winsmore Lane Primary	Substation	—	—	4.3 km
Berinsfield Primary	Substation	—	—	4.7 km
AWS Didcot Data Centre	Data center	—	—	5.2 km
R89	Data center	—	—	11 km
University Shared Data Centre	Data center	—	—	11 km

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