Power plant · Dorset, England, United Kingdom
Holt Road - Battery Energy Storage
Holt Road - Battery Energy Storage is a permitted power plant in Dorset, England, United Kingdom, with 47.5 MW of capacity, operated by EDF Energy Renewables.
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 | Dorset (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Holt Road, Wimborne, BH21 6SE | 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 | 29 Jul 2024 (permit P/FUL/2023/06578, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Dorset) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 10 Nov 2023 (reference P/FUL/2023/06578, planning authority Dorset) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 29 Jul 2024 (granted, reference P/FUL/2023/06578, planning authority Dorset) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | EDF Energy Renewables | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 47.5 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 | 50.8511, -1.8874 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Holt Road - Battery Energy Storage is the 798th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,269th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 47.5 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 | 798th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,269th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 2,396th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 208 grid connections (127 operating, 1,074 MW), 163 substations and 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mannington Primary | Substation | — | — | 0.6 km |
| Mannington BSP | Substation | — | — | 0.7 km |
| Mannington GSP | Substation | — | — | 0.7 km |
| Sturts Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 98 MW | Planned | 1.3 km |
| PV Generation grid connection | Grid connection | 10.6 MW | Operating | 1.6 km |
| 200MW BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 200 MW | Planned | 1.6 km |
| Data Vault - Bournemouth BCP01 | Data center | — | — | 14 km |
| Sky Chilworth | Data center | — | — | 35 km |
| SCC | Data center | — | — | 45 km |
Operator and place
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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.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- 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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.