Power plant · Trafford, England, United Kingdom
Golf Road - Battery Energy Storage
Golf Road - Battery Energy Storage is a permitted power plant in Trafford, England, United Kingdom, with 90 MW of capacity, operated by Cragside Energy 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 | Trafford (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Golf Road, Sale, M33 2XU | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Permitted (appeal granted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 18 Oct 2024 (permit 111105/FUL/23, 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 | 2 Jun 2023 (ref. 111105/FUL/23, Trafford) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 18 Oct 2024 (appeal granted, ref. 111105/FUL/23, Trafford) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 10 Jan 2024 (refused, ref. 111105/FUL/23, Trafford) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 18 Oct 2024 (granted, ref. 111105/FUL/23, Trafford) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Cragside Energy Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 90 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 | 53.4246, -2.2875 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Golf Road - Battery Energy Storage is the 337th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 555th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 90 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 | 337th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 555th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 1,475th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 382 grid connections (199 operating, 1,814 MW), 45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CEL Bridgewater BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 90 MW | Planned | 0.4 km |
| Sale BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 99.9 MW | Planned | 0.7 km |
| South Manchester BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 70 MW | Planned | 0.7 km |
| Keuper Underground Gas Storage Facility Material Change 1 | CO2 emitter | — | Planned | 24 km |
| Keuper Gas Storage Project | CO2 emitter | — | Permitted | 25 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
More from Cragside Energy Limited
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- Greenfield Road, Westoning - Battery Energy Storage System30 MW · permitted
- CEL Bridgewater BESS grid connection90 MW
- CEL Heysham BESS grid connection90 MW
- Vernon Park BESS grid connection75 MW
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- Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
- Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind Farm1,500 MW
- Hornsea 2 - Optimus and Breesea1,320 MW
- Hornsea 1 - Heron & Njord1,218 MW
- Atlantic Array One - Bristol Channel Zone1,200 MW
- Five Estuaries - Wind Farm1,080 MW
- Rugeley Power Plant Conversion1,000 MW
- Teesworks Battery Storage Project1,000 MW
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.