Power plant · Cheshire East, England, United Kingdom
Former EON Power Station, Booth Lane - Battery Energy Storage System
Former EON Power Station, Booth Lane - Battery Energy Storage System is a permitted battery storage plant in Cheshire East, England, United Kingdom, with 20 MW of capacity, operated by Bluefield Sandbach 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 | Cheshire East (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Former Power Station, Booth Lane, Moston, CW11 3PY | 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 | 11 Apr 2025 (permit 24/4104/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Cheshire East) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 16 Oct 2024 (reference 24/4104/FUL, planning authority Cheshire East) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 11 Apr 2025 (granted, reference 24/4104/FUL, planning authority Cheshire East) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Bluefield Sandbach Limited (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 20 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Battery (co-located with fossil fuel plant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.1662, -2.4035 | 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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Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Permit granted (planning authority Cheshire East, reference 24/4104/FUL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Cheshire East, reference 24/4104/FUL)
How it compares
Former EON Power Station, Booth Lane - Battery Energy Storage System is the 973rd-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,574th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 20 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 | 973rd of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,574th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 3,589th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 227 substations, 209 grid connections (120 operating, 956 MW), 18 data centers, 3 gas storage facilities and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salinae Hydrogen Storage project | Gas storage facility | — | Planned | 3.9 km |
| Keuper Gas Storage Project | Gas storage facility | — | Permitted | 6.8 km |
| Keuper Underground Gas Storage Facility Material Change 1 | Gas storage facility | — | Planned | 7.6 km |
| Chelford | Substation | — | — | 14 km |
| Alderley House grid connection | Grid connection | 1.8 MW | Operating | 17 km |
| Alderley Park CHP grid connection | Grid connection | 2.6 MW | Operating | 17 km |
| Woodhouse Nurseries grid connection | Grid connection | 3.4 MW | Operating | 18 km |
| Alderley | Substation | — | — | 20 km |
| Internet Central data center, England | Data center | — | — | 20 km |
Operator and place
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- 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.