Power plant · Lancaster, England, United Kingdom
Fanny House Farm, Bay Gateway - Battery Storage
Fanny House Farm, Bay Gateway - Battery Storage is a permitted power plant in Lancaster, England, United Kingdom, with 940 MW of capacity, operated by Innova Renewables.
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 | Lancaster (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Fanny House Farm, Heaton With Oxcliffe, Morcambe, LA3 3EF | 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 | 28 Nov 2023 (permit 23/00749/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Lancaster) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 30 Jun 2023 (reference 23/00749/FUL, planning authority Lancaster) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 28 Nov 2023 (granted, reference 23/00749/FUL, planning authority Lancaster) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Innova Renewables | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 940 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 | 54.0528, -2.8753 | 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 Lancaster, reference 23/00749/FUL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Lancaster, reference 23/00749/FUL)
How it compares
Fanny House Farm, Bay Gateway - Battery Storage is the 40th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 65th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 940 MW is 0.31% 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 | 40th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | 0.51% |
| United Kingdom | 65th of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | 0.31% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 105th of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | 0.14% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 200 grid connections (109 operating, 1,274 MW), 142 substations, 2 transmission lines and 1 gas storage facility, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fanny House Solar Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 4 MW | Operating | 1.0 km |
| Westgate | Substation | — | — | 1.2 km |
| North Farm BESS Plant No 2 grid connection | Grid connection | 99.9 MW | Planned | 1.7 km |
| Heysham Wind Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 2.3 MW | Operating | 1.7 km |
| Woodhill Lane | Substation | — | — | 1.8 km |
| Heysham GSP | Substation | — | — | 2.2 km |
| Preesall Saltfield Underground Gas Storage | Gas storage facility | — | Cancelled | 18 km |
| East Irish Sea Transmission Project | Transmission line | — | Planned | 21 km |
| Morgan and Morecambe Offshore Wind Farms Transmission Assets | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 34 km |
Operator and place
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- 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
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- Rugeley Power Plant Conversion1,000 MW
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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.
- 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.