Power plant · North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Hales Lane - Battery Storage Facility
Hales Lane - Battery Storage Facility is a permitted power plant in North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, with 100 MW of capacity, operated by Aura Power.
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 | North Yorkshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Hales Lane, Drax, Selby, YO8 8PL | 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 | 16 May 2022 (permit 2021/1089/FULM, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by North Yorkshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 6 Sept 2021 (ref. 2021/1089/FULM, North Yorkshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 16 May 2022 (granted, ref. 2021/1089/FULM, North Yorkshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Aura Power | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 100 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 | 53.7267, -0.9816 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Hales Lane - Battery Storage Facility is the 248th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 426th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 100 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 | 248th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 426th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 1,276th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 484 grid connections (229 operating, 2,732 MW), 326 substations and 3 transmission lines, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battery storage 120 MW grid connection at Aura Power Direct | Grid connection | 120 MW | Planned | 0.1 km |
| Battery storage 60 MW grid connection at Drax Village BESS | Grid connection | 60 MW | Planned | 0.5 km |
| Battery storage 99.9 MW grid connection at Church Dike Lane BESS Direct | Grid connection | 99.9 MW | Planned | 0.7 km |
| Drax | Substation | — | — | 1.0 km |
| Camblesforth | Substation | — | — | 1.3 km |
| Drax Primary | Substation | — | — | 1.4 km |
| Yorkshire GREEN | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 27 km |
| North Humber to High Marnham | Transmission line | — | Planned | 31 km |
| Continental Link Multi-Purpose Interconnector | Transmission line | — | Cancelled | 38 km |
Operator and place
Grid connections attached to this power plant
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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.
- 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.