Power plant · Bristol, City of, England, United Kingdom
Kings Weston Lane - Battery Energy Storage System
Kings Weston Lane - Battery Energy Storage System is a permitted power plant in Bristol, City of, England, United Kingdom, with 20 MW of capacity, operated by Fig 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 | Bristol, City of (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Kings Weston Lane, Avonmouth, Bristol, BS11 0YS | 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 Mar 2026 (permit 24/04429/F, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Bristol, City of) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 20 Nov 2024 (reference 24/04429/F, planning authority Bristol, City of) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 16 Mar 2026 (granted, reference 24/04429/F, planning authority Bristol, City of) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Fig Power | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 20 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 | 51.5155, -2.6711 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Kings Weston Lane - Battery Energy Storage System is the 1,200th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,875th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 20 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 | 1,200th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,875th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 3,872nd of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 379 grid connections (46 operating, 614 MW), 30 substations, 11 data centers and 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol Avonmouth Kingsweston LN Import/Export 2nd Site grid connection | Grid connection | — | — | 0.5 km |
| Avonmouth Waste Water Treatment Works grid connection | Grid connection | — | — | 0.5 km |
| T J Transport grid connection | Grid connection | — | — | 0.5 km |
| nLighten Bristol | Data center | — | — | 6.8 km |
| Hinkley Point C Connection | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 21 km |
| Hinkley Point C Connection Project Material Change | Transmission line | — | Planned | 23 km |
| Insight Data Ltd | Data center | — | — | 24 km |
| Vantage Data Centers - CWL13 | Data center | — | — | 25 km |
| Alderton Primary | Substation | — | — | 31 km |
Operator and place
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- 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
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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.
- NGED Connected Data portal. NGED Connected Data portal, Terms not verified.
- © 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.