Power plant · North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Eggborough Battery Energy Storage System
Eggborough Battery Energy Storage System is a permitted battery storage plant in North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, with 550 MW of capacity, operated by SSE Renewables Ireland Limited.
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 | North Yorkshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Roall Lane, Kellington, Goole, DN14 0NY | 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 | 30 May 2025 (permit ZG2024/1306/FULM, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by North Yorkshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 12 Jun 2024 (reference ZG2024/1306/FULM, planning authority North Yorkshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 30 May 2025 (granted, reference ZG2024/1306/FULM, planning authority North Yorkshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | SSE Renewables Ireland Limited (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 550 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 | 53.7198, -1.1593 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit granted (planning authority North Yorkshire, reference ZG2024/1306/FULM)
- Permit applied for (planning authority North Yorkshire, reference ZG2024/1306/FULM)
How it compares
Eggborough Battery Energy Storage System is the 65th-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 99th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 550 MW is 0.2% of the 279,068 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 | 65th of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | 0.32% |
| United Kingdom | 99th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | 0.2% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 232nd of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 450 grid connections (229 operating, 2,652 MW), 373 substations, 11 data centers and 3 transmission lines, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battery storage 200 MW grid connection at NEL Hunter Direct | Grid connection | 200 MW | Planned | 1.7 km |
| Battery storage and Waste 20 MW grid connection at Hut Green Generation | Grid connection | 20 MW | Planned | 2.0 km |
| Saint Gobain Glass UK Limited (Non-Exporting) grid connection | Grid connection | 16 MW | Operating | 2.1 km |
| Eggborough | Substation | — | — | 2.9 km |
| Beal | Substation | — | — | 3.6 km |
| Weeland Road | Substation | — | — | 5.6 km |
| HSBC Wakefield Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 14 km |
| nLighten Leeds | Data center | — | — | 16 km |
| Yorkshire GREEN | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 22 km |
Operator and place
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. 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.
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- Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
- © 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.
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