Power plant · County Durham, England, United Kingdom
Hawthorn Pit Green Energy Park - Battery Energy Storage System
Hawthorn Pit Green Energy Park - Battery Energy Storage System is a planned power plant in County Durham, England, United Kingdom, with 1,000 MW of capacity, operated by NatPower UK.
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 | County Durham (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Location | England | NESO TEC Register · NESO Open Data Licence v1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | The North West Of High Crows House Wheatley Hill, DH6 3QL | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned (planning application submitted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 27 Aug 2025 (reference DM/25/02255/FPA, planning authority County Durham) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | NatPower UK | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 1,000 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 | 54.7549, -1.4020 | 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.
Request researchLatest events
Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Permit applied for (planning authority County Durham, reference DM/25/02255/FPA)
Also recorded as
2 sources record Hawthorn Pit Green Energy Park - Battery Energy Storage System; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawthorn Pit Green Energy Park - Battery Energy Storage System | asset:repd:19676 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) | — |
| Hawthorn Pit Green Energy Centre | asset:neso-tec:pro-002282 | NESO TEC Register | Same name, technology and capacity |
How it compares
Hawthorn Pit Green Energy Park - Battery Energy Storage System is the 30th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 50th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1,000 MW is 0.33% of the 300,461 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 | 30th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | 0.54% |
| United Kingdom | 50th of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | 0.33% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 76th of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | 0.15% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 281 grid connections (140 operating, 1,365 MW), 166 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battery storage and Solar 49.9 MW grid connection at Harehill Farm Hybrid | Grid connection | 49.9 MW | Planned | 1.7 km |
| Wind 3.5 MW grid connection at Hawthorn Pit | Grid connection | 3.5 MW | Operating | 1.7 km |
| Peterlee West | Substation | — | — | 2.0 km |
| Battery storage and Solar 25.2 MW grid connection at West Moor Farm | Grid connection | 25.2 MW | Planned | 2.4 km |
| Shotton | Substation | — | — | 3.2 km |
| Peterlee Industrial | Substation | — | — | 3.4 km |
| DXC Wynyard Data Center | Data center | — | — | 15 km |
| Lumen Technologies data center, Middlesbrough | Data center | — | — | 22 km |
| Pulsant data center, England | Data center | — | — | 23 km |
Operator and place
Grid connections attached to this power plant
More from NatPower UK
- Canners Lane Energy Park, High Dike - Battery Energy Storage1,000 MW · planned
- Swinford Energy Park - Energy Park Facility & Battery Storage1,000 MW · planned
- Tesside GigaPark - Battery Energy Storage System1,000 MW · planned
- Tyn Y Coed - Battery Energy Storage System500 MW · planned
Other power plants in England
- 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
- 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.
- Supported by National Energy SO Open Data. NESO TEC Register, NESO Open Data Licence v1.0.
- Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
- © 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.