Power plant · Redcar and Cleveland, England, United Kingdom
Grangetown Prairie - Energy Recovery Facility, Option 1
Grangetown Prairie - Energy Recovery Facility, Option 1 is a permitted power plant in Redcar and Cleveland, England, United Kingdom, with 35.5 MW of capacity, operated by Viridor Waste Management 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 | Redcar and Cleveland (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Land East Of John Boyle Road, Tees Dock Road, And West Of, Grangetown Prairie Site, Middlesbrough, TS6 6LU | 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 | 20 Jul 2023 (permit R/2023/0246/RMM, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Redcar and Cleveland) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 28 Mar 2023 (ref. R/2023/0246/RMM, Redcar and Cleveland) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 20 Jul 2023 (granted, ref. R/2023/0246/RMM, Redcar and Cleveland) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Viridor Waste Management Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 35.5 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | EfW Incineration | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 54.5845, -1.1514 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Grangetown Prairie - Energy Recovery Facility, Option 1 is the 936th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,487th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 35.5 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 | 936th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,487th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 2,767th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 236 grid connections (122 operating, 1,239 MW) and 124 substations, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 6, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grangetown | Substation | — | — | 0.3 km |
| Landfill gas 2.027 MW grid connection at Grangetown | Grid connection | 2.03 MW | Operating | 0.4 km |
| Waste 1.097 MW grid connection at Grangetown | Grid connection | 1.1 MW | Operating | 0.4 km |
| Gas 12 MW grid connection at Grangetown | Grid connection | 12 MW | Operating | 0.6 km |
| Lackenby | Substation | — | — | 2.2 km |
| Spencerbeck | Substation | — | — | 2.8 km |
Operator and place
More from Viridor Waste Management Limited
- Ardley EFW Generation grid connection24.7 MW
- Raikes Lane Incinerator grid connection11.7 MW
- Moss Hall Lane Generator grid connection4.5 MW
- Pilsworth Power Plant grid connection4.12 MW
- Viridor Waste Management grid connection3.8 MW
- Pilsworth Landfill Site grid connection3.45 MW
- Waste 3.325 MW grid connection at Causeway3.33 MW
- Whitehead Landfill Site grid connection3.3 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.
- 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.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.