Power plant · Trafford, England, United Kingdom
Freshfields, Fairy Lane - Battery Storage
Freshfields, Fairy Lane - Battery Storage is a power plant under construction in Trafford, England, United Kingdom, with 99.9 MW of capacity, operated by STOR Power Utilities Limited.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Trafford (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Freshfields Fairy Lane, M33 2JU | 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 Mar 2023 (permit 109463/FUL/22, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Trafford) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 25 Oct 2022 (ref. 109463/FUL/22, Trafford) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 20 Mar 2023 (granted, ref. 109463/FUL/22, Trafford) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | STOR Power Utilities Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 99.9 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Battery | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.4205, -2.2793 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Freshfields, Fairy Lane - Battery Storage is the 296th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 501st-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 99.9 MW is <0.1% 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 | 296th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 501st of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 1,415th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 383 grid connections (198 operating, 1,808 MW), 46 substations and 3 CO2 emitters, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Manchester BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 70 MW | Planned | 0.0 km |
| Sale BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 99.9 MW | Planned | 0.1 km |
| Fairy Lane (ESS Option) grid connection | Grid connection | 49.9 MW | Operating | 0.2 km |
| Keuper Underground Gas Storage Facility Material Change 1 | CO2 emitter | — | Planned | 24 km |
| Keuper Gas Storage Project | CO2 emitter | — | Permitted | 24 km |
| Salinae Hydrogen Storage project | CO2 emitter | — | Planned | 33 km |
| Slaithwaite | Substation | — | — | 33 km |
| Todmorden | Substation | — | — | 34 km |
| Meltham | Substation | — | — | 35 km |
Operator and place
Grid connections attached to this power plant
- Sale BESS grid connection99.9 MW
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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.
- 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.
- Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
- Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Rare Context entity resolution. Rare Context entity resolution, CC0 1.0.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.