Power plant · Cheshire East, England, United Kingdom
Dragons Lane - Battery Storage Facility
Dragons Lane - Battery Storage Facility is a permitted power plant in Cheshire East, England, United Kingdom, with 12 MW of capacity, operated by Hydrock.
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 | Cheshire East (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | N/O Dragon's Lane, Sandbach, Moston, CW11 3QH | 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 | 1 Dec 2022 (permit 22/2219C, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Cheshire East) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 22 Jul 2022 (reference 22/2219C, planning authority Cheshire East) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 1 Dec 2022 (granted, reference 22/2219C, planning authority Cheshire East) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Hydrock | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 12 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 | 53.1630, -2.4090 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this power plant and its operator.Who owns it up to the parent company, its grid connection and planning status, and an introduction to the operator.
Request researchLatest events
Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Permit granted (planning authority Cheshire East, reference 22/2219C)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Cheshire East, reference 22/2219C)
How it compares
Dragons Lane - Battery Storage Facility is the 1,412th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,193rd-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 12 MW is <0.1% of the 300,461 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 | 1,412th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,193rd of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 4,951st of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 227 substations, 208 grid connections (120 operating, 956 MW), 18 data centers, 3 gas storage facilities 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salinae Hydrogen Storage project | Gas storage facility | — | Planned | 3.4 km |
| Keuper Gas Storage Project | Gas storage facility | — | Permitted | 7.0 km |
| Keuper Underground Gas Storage Facility Material Change 1 | Gas storage facility | — | Planned | 7.8 km |
| Chelford | Substation | — | — | 14 km |
| Alderley House grid connection | Grid connection | 1.8 MW | Operating | 18 km |
| Alderley Park CHP grid connection | Grid connection | 2.6 MW | Operating | 18 km |
| Woodhouse Nurseries grid connection | Grid connection | 3.4 MW | Operating | 18 km |
| Internet Central data center, England | Data center | — | — | 20 km |
| Alderley | Substation | — | — | 20 km |
Operator and place
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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.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- © 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.