Power plant · Vale of White Horse, England, United Kingdom
Didcot B Power Station
Didcot B Power Station is a gas power plant in Vale of White Horse, England, United Kingdom, with 1,490 MW of capacity, owned by RWE Generation.
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 | Vale of White Horse (coordinates), England | DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Location | England | NESO TEC Register · NESO Open Data Licence v1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Operating | DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Start year | 1998 | DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Owner | RWE Generation (company that returns the dukes survey, usually the owner) | DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 1,490 MW | DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Natural gas (CCGT) | DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.6254, -1.2665 | DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
Research on this power plant and its owner.Who owns it up to the parent company, its grid connection and planning status, and an introduction to the owner.
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2 sources record Didcot B; this page joins their facts, each with its own source. Links to any of the records lead here. How records are matched.
| Name in the source | Identifier | Source | Matched on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Didcot B | asset:dukes:gas-000176 | DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom | — |
| Didcot B | asset:neso-tec:pro-000122 | NESO TEC Register | Same name, technology, capacity and company |
How it compares
Didcot B is the 9th-largest of 4,035 power plants in England and the 13th-largest of 5,834 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1,490 MW is 0.74% 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 | 9th of 4,035 | 134,434 MW | 1.1% |
| United Kingdom | 13th of 5,834 | 200,500 MW | 0.74% |
| All power plants in our data | 219th of 15,799 | 1,918,113 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 225 grid connections (117 operating, 1,427 MW), 216 substations and 61 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milton Primary | Substation | — | — | 0.9 km |
| AWS Didcot Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 1.0 km |
| Generation 1.596 MW grid connection at Milton | Grid connection | 1.6 MW | Operating | 1.2 km |
| Sutton Courtenay grid connection | Grid connection | 12.5 MW | Planned | 1.6 km |
| Sutton Courtenay Landfill Site grid connection | Grid connection | 14.3 MW | Operating | 1.6 km |
| Drayton BSP | Substation | — | — | 4.2 km |
| Fulscot Primary | Substation | — | — | 4.4 km |
| R89 | Data center | — | — | 6.6 km |
| University Shared Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 15 km |
Owner and place
Grid connections attached to this power plant
- Didcot B grid connection1,705 MW
More from RWE Generation
- Pembroke2,325 MW
- Staythorpe1,828 MW
- Aberthaw B1,559 MW
- North Falls Offshore Wind Farm1,000 MW · permitted
- Stallingborough Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) generating plant and Carbon Capture Plant (CCP)900 MW · planned
- Little Barford735 MW
- Great Yarmouth420 MW
- Kings Lynn395 MW
Other power plants in England
- Drax Power Station Biomass Units2,580 MW
- Ratcliffe-on-Soar2,021 MW
- Cottam2,000 MW
- Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
- West Burton2,000 MW
- Eggborough1,960 MW
- Staythorpe1,828 MW
- Fiddler’s Ferry1,510 MW
Data on this page
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- 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.
- 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.
- Supported by National Energy SO Open Data. NESO TEC Register, NESO Open Data Licence v1.0.
- Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages. Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages, Facts only, each linked to its page.
- © 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.