Power plant · Central Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Greenfield Road, Westoning - Battery Energy Storage System
Greenfield Road, Westoning - Battery Energy Storage System is a permitted power plant in Central Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, with 30 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 | Central Bedfordshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Greenfield Road, Westoning, Bedford, MK45 5BH | 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 | 2 Jul 2025 (permit CB/24/02938/FULL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Central Bedfordshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 14 Oct 2024 (reference CB/24/02938/FULL, planning authority Central Bedfordshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 2 Jul 2025 (granted, reference CB/24/02938/FULL, planning authority Central Bedfordshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Cragside Energy Limited (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 30 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 | 51.9970, -0.4754 | 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 Central Bedfordshire, reference CB/24/02938/FULL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Central Bedfordshire, reference CB/24/02938/FULL)
How it compares
Greenfield Road, Westoning - Battery Energy Storage System is the 806th-largest of 1,651 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,321st-largest of 2,549 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 30 MW is <0.1% of the 279,978 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 | 806th of 1,651 | 172,174 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,321st of 2,549 | 279,978 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 2,733rd of 5,782 | 643,557 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 25 substations, 24 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 23 grid connections (10 operating, 112 MW) and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data center, Dunstable (OSM way 526426719) | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
| Starwood House | Data center | — | — | 18 km |
| Pulsant Milton Keynes SE-1 | Data center | — | — | 20 km |
| East Claydon GSP | Substation | — | — | 31 km |
| Cokes Lane Primary | Substation | — | — | 37 km |
| Amersham GSP | Substation | — | — | 39 km |
| Generation 99 MW grid connection at Amersham Main | Grid connection | 99 MW | Planned | 40 km |
| Pembridge Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 131 MW | Planned | 41 km |
| Bicester 49.9MW - PV grid connection | Grid connection | 44 MW | Planned | 42 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.
- 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.