Power plant · Hartlepool, England, United Kingdom

Hartlepool Power Station

Hartlepool Power Station is a nuclear power plant in Hartlepool, England, United Kingdom, with 1,185 MW of capacity, owned by EDF Energy.

Grid connection

It is due to retire in 2028, which frees up a 1,185 MW grid connection at 275 kV (Hartlepool 275kV Substation) to the grid of National Grid Electricity Transmission.

Retiring power plants in the United Kingdom

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	Hartlepool (coordinates), England	DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Location	England	NESO TEC Register · NESO Open Data Licence v1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating	DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	1983	DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Owner	EDF Energy (company that returns the dukes survey, usually the owner)	DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	1,185 MW	DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Nuclear (AGR)	DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Planned retirement	2028 (due to generate until March 2028, owner's announced end of generation)	GB power station owners' pages · record · Facts only, each linked to its page · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	54.6732, -1.1959	DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Also recorded as

2 sources record Hartlepool; this page joins their facts, each with its own source. Links to any of the records lead here. How records are matched.

Name in the source	Identifier	Source	Matched on
Hartlepool	asset:dukes:nuc-000126	DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom	—
Hartlepool	asset:neso-tec:pro-000139	NESO TEC Register	Same name, technology, capacity and company

How it compares

Hartlepool is the 21st-largest of 4,035 power plants in England and the 27th-largest of 5,834 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1,185 MW is 0.59% of the 200,500 MW we hold for the United Kingdom. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
England	21st of 4,035	134,434 MW	0.88%
United Kingdom	27th of 5,834	200,500 MW	0.59%
All power plants in our data	373rd of 15,800	1,923,633 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 260 grid connections (131 operating, 1,271 MW), 158 substations and 5 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Brenda Trading	Substation	—	—	1.4 km
Waste 5.1 MW grid connection at Greatham Direct	Grid connection	5.1 MW	Operating	2.1 km
Amberton Road	Substation	—	—	2.9 km
Battery storage 49.9 MW grid connection at Brenda Road 49.9MW BESS	Grid connection	49.9 MW	Planned	3.1 km
Hartlepool University Hospital grid connection	Grid connection	2 MW	Operating	3.9 km
Greatham Direct	Substation	—	—	5.1 km
DXC Wynyard Data Center	Data center	—	—	8.6 km
Lumen Technologies data center, Middlesbrough	Data center	—	—	11 km
Data center, Redcar (OSM way 1055031579)	Data center	—	—	14 km

Owner and place

Grid connections attached to this power plant

Hartlepool grid connection1,197 MW

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Data on this page

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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.
GB power station owners' pages. GB power station owners' pages, Facts only, each linked to its page.
JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), CC BY 4.0.
Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
Supported by National Energy SO Open Data. NESO TEC Register, NESO Open Data Licence v1.0.
Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages. Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages, Facts only, each linked to its page.
Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
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.
Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.