Power plant · Wirral, England, United Kingdom
Hooton Park
Hooton Park is a power plant under construction in Wirral, England, United Kingdom, with 28 MW of capacity, operated by Cogen.
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 | Wirral (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | North Road, Eastham, Wirral, CH65 1AJ | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Under construction | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 29 Jul 2009 (permit APP/08/06316, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Wirral) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 15 Jul 2008 (reference APP/08/06316, planning authority Wirral) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 29 Jul 2009 (granted, reference APP/08/06316, planning authority Wirral) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Cogen | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 28 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Advanced Conversion Technologies | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.3105, -2.9337 | 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.
- Construction started
- Permit granted (planning authority Wirral, reference APP/08/06316)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Wirral, reference APP/08/06316)
How it compares
Hooton Park is the 1,074th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,692nd-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 28 MW is <0.1% 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 | 1,074th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,692nd of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 3,173rd of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 152 substations, 149 grid connections (90 operating, 680 MW), 15 data centers, 3 gas storage facilities and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nLighten Edge Data Centre Liverpool | Data center | — | — | 4.5 km |
| nLighten Chester | Data center | — | — | 7.3 km |
| The Babbage Centre | Data center | — | — | 13 km |
| Bold GSP | Substation | — | — | 21 km |
| Bickerstaffe WTW grid connection | Grid connection | 1.25 MW | Operating | 25 km |
| Unit 1 Junction Lane grid connection | Grid connection | 5.26 MW | Planned | 25 km |
| Billinge Hill Quarry Landfill grid connection | Grid connection | 1.03 MW | Operating | 25 km |
| Newton Le Willows | Substation | — | — | 26 km |
| Haydock | Substation | — | — | 27 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.
- SP Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- 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.