Power plant · Warrington, England, United Kingdom
Fiddlers Ferry Power Station - Battery storage
Fiddlers Ferry Power Station - Battery storage is a battery storage plant under construction in Warrington, England, United Kingdom, with 150 MW of capacity, operated by SSE Enterprise.
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 | Warrington (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Fiddlers Ferry Power Station, Widnes Road, Warrington, WA5 2UT | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Under construction | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 20 Jun 2023 (permit 2022/41800, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Warrington) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 27 Jul 2022 (reference 2022/41800, planning authority Warrington) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 20 Jun 2023 (granted, reference 2022/41800, planning authority Warrington) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | SSE Enterprise (SSE Enterprise (SSE PLC)) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 150 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 | 53.3739, -2.6852 | 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.
- Construction started
- Permit granted (planning authority Warrington, reference 2022/41800)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Warrington, reference 2022/41800)
How it compares
Fiddlers Ferry Power Station - Battery storage is the 211th-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 334th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 150 MW is <0.1% 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 | 211th of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 334th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 998th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 313 substations, 309 grid connections (171 operating, 1,505 MW), 18 data centers and 3 gas storage facilities, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron Mountain | Data center | — | — | 5.9 km |
| The Babbage Centre | Data center | — | — | 6.6 km |
| Bold GSP | Substation | — | — | 6.8 km |
| Verizon Warrington | Data center | — | — | 7.6 km |
| Unit 1 Junction Lane grid connection | Grid connection | 5.26 MW | Planned | 8.8 km |
| Parkside Railway Station grid connection | Grid connection | 3 MW | Operating | 9.9 km |
| Newton Le Willows | Substation | — | — | 10 km |
| Lymes Wood Landfill Site grid connection | Grid connection | 1.17 MW | Operating | 11 km |
| Haydock | Substation | — | — | 11 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.
- 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.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.