Power plant · Thurrock, England, United Kingdom
Gateway Energy Centre - Battery Energy Storage
Gateway Energy Centre - Battery Energy Storage is a permitted power plant in Thurrock, England, United Kingdom, with 450 MW of capacity, operated by Intergen 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 | Thurrock (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | East 2 Baltic Avenue Stanford Le Hope, SS17 9FF | 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 | 13 Jan 2023 (permit 21/01971/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Thurrock) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 17 Nov 2021 (reference 21/01971/FUL, planning authority Thurrock) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 13 Jan 2023 (granted, reference 21/01971/FUL, planning authority Thurrock) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Intergen Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 450 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 | 51.5104, 0.4984 | 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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- Permit granted (planning authority Thurrock, reference 21/01971/FUL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Thurrock, reference 21/01971/FUL)
How it compares
Gateway Energy Centre - Battery Energy Storage is the 98th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 150th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 450 MW is 0.15% 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 | 98th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | 0.24% |
| United Kingdom | 150th of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | 0.15% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 319th of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 55 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 3 grid connections (2 operating, 9.14 MW), 1 AI supercomputer and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 8, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imperium 315 | Data center | — | — | 8.5 km |
| CityFibre Cabinets | Data center | — | — | 12 km |
| Fujitsu Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 16 km |
| Solar 6.935 MW grid connection at Maiden Newton | Grid connection | 6.94 MW | Operating | 30 km |
| NVIDIA Cambridge-1 | AI supercomputer | 202 H100e | Operating | 38 km |
| North London (Electricity Line) Reinforcement | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 39 km |
| Tertiary Study grid connection | Grid connection | 57 MW | Planned | 41 km |
| Ariel Way White City London grid connection | Grid connection | 2.2 MW | Operating | 50 km |
Operator and place
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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.
- Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, 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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.