Power plant · South Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
Fairfields Energy Storage System
Fairfields Energy Storage System is a permitted power plant in South Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, with 1,025 MW of capacity, operated by Novus Renewable Services 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 | South Derbyshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Land at Barr Hall Farm, Drakelow, DE12 8NB | 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 | 17 Mar 2025 (permit DMPA/2024/0789, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by South Derbyshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 13 Jun 2024 (reference DMPA/2024/0789, planning authority South Derbyshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 17 Mar 2025 (granted, reference DMPA/2024/0789, planning authority South Derbyshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Novus Renewable Services Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 1,025 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 | 52.7635, -1.6732 | 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.
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Fairfields Energy Storage System is the 28th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 47th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1,025 MW is 0.34% 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 | 28th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | 0.55% |
| United Kingdom | 47th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | 0.34% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 73rd of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | 0.15% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 424 grid connections, 8 data centers and 2 transmission lines, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 8, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drakelow Solar Farm grid connection | Grid connection | — | — | 1.6 km |
| Drakelow REC grid connection | Grid connection | — | — | 1.7 km |
| Barn Farm grid connection | Grid connection | — | — | 2.4 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 710050084) | Data center | — | — | 32 km |
| Chesterfield to Willington | Transmission line | — | Planned | 34 km |
| Hutchison 3G | Data center | — | — | 34 km |
| EE Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 35 km |
| Weston Marsh to East Leicestershire | Transmission line | — | Planned | 48 km |
Operator and place
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- Tolldish Hall Farm, Parrotts Grove - Solar Photovoltaic Panels25 MW · under construction
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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.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- NGED Connected Data portal. NGED Connected Data portal, Terms not verified.
- © 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.