Power plant · Barking and Dagenham, England, United Kingdom
Ford Motor Company Ltd (Extension)
Ford Motor Company Ltd (Extension) is a wind power plant in Barking and Dagenham, England, United Kingdom, with 2 MW of capacity.
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 | Barking and Dagenham (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Operating (operational) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Start year | 2011 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Onshore or offshore | Onshore | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 16 Jul 2009 (permit U0009.09, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Barking and Dagenham) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 2 Apr 2009 (reference U0009.09, planning authority Barking and Dagenham) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 16 Jul 2009 (granted, reference U0009.09, planning authority Barking and Dagenham) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 2 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Units | 1 units (2 MW per unit) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Wind Onshore | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.5290, 0.1537 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this power plant and its owner.Who owns it up to the parent company, its grid connection and planning status, and an introduction to the owner.
Request researchLatest events
Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Commissioned
- Permit granted (planning authority Barking and Dagenham, reference U0009.09)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Barking and Dagenham, reference U0009.09)
How it compares
Ford Motor Company Ltd (Extension) is the 3,284th-largest of 4,035 power plants in England and the 4,810th-largest of 5,834 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 2 MW is <0.1% of the 200,500 MW we hold for the United Kingdom. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.
| Within | Rank | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 3,284th of 4,035 | 134,434 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 4,810th of 5,834 | 200,500 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants in our data | 14,072nd of 15,800 | 1,923,633 MW | <0.1% |
Timeline
Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.
- Started operating
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 103 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 60 substations, 21 grid connections (11 operating, 97.1 MW), 1 transmission line and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NTT London 1 | Data center | — | — | 2.5 km |
| OVH data center, England | Data center | — | — | 4.3 km |
| Virtual Internet UK | Data center | — | — | 9.1 km |
| North London (Electricity Line) Reinforcement | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 16 km |
| Tertiary Study grid connection | Grid connection | 57 MW | Planned | 17 km |
| Ariel Way White City London grid connection | Grid connection | 2.2 MW | Operating | 26 km |
| NVIDIA Cambridge-1 | AI supercomputer | 202 H100e | Operating | 27 km |
| Volt Avenue Primary | Substation | — | — | 28 km |
| Willesden GSP | Substation | — | — | 28 km |
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. DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- 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.
- Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, CC BY 4.0.
- JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), CC BY 4.0.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages. Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages, Facts only, each linked to its page.
- © 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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.