Power plant · Wakefield, England, United Kingdom

Kirkhaw Lane - Battery Storage Energy

Kirkhaw Lane - Battery Storage Energy is a battery storage plant in Wakefield, England, United Kingdom, with 150 MW of capacity, operated by SSE Enterprise Contracting.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Wakefield (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Ferrybridge Power Station, Kirkhaw Lane, Knottingley, WF11 8RB	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating (operational)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	2026	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	6 Jun 2023 (permit 21/02758/CPL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Wakefield)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	11 Nov 2021 (reference 21/02758/CPL, planning authority Wakefield)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	6 Jun 2023 (granted, reference 21/02758/CPL, planning authority Wakefield)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	SSE Enterprise Contracting	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	150 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	53.7220, -1.2729	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Latest events

Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.

23 Mar 2026Commissioned
6 Jun 2023Permit granted (planning authority Wakefield, reference 21/02758/CPL)
11 Nov 2021Permit applied for (planning authority Wakefield, reference 21/02758/CPL)

How it compares

Kirkhaw Lane - Battery Storage Energy is the 114th-largest of 4,035 power plants in England and the 171st-largest of 5,834 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 150 MW is <0.1% 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	114th of 4,035	134,434 MW	0.11%
United Kingdom	171st of 5,834	200,500 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	2,086th of 15,800	1,923,633 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.

2026Started operating

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 437 grid connections (223 operating, 2,429 MW), 383 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
Kirkhaw Lane	Substation	—	—	0.4 km
Ferrybridge A	Substation	—	—	0.4 km
Ferrybridge A 11kV	Substation	—	—	0.4 km
Battery storage 94.9 MW grid connection at Ferrybridge BESS Direct	Grid connection	94.9 MW	Planned	0.4 km
Waste 28 MW grid connection at Fryston Lane Direct	Grid connection	28 MW	Planned	0.7 km
Waste 82 MW grid connection at Fryston Lane Direct	Grid connection	82 MW	Operating	0.7 km
HSBC Wakefield Data Centre	Data center	—	—	7.2 km
nLighten Leeds	Data center	—	—	8.6 km
Yorkshire GREEN	Transmission line	—	Permitted	20 km

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Data on this page

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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.
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.
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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.
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