Power plant · Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom
Lakeside Business Park
Lakeside Business Park is a battery storage plant under construction in Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom, with 2 MW of capacity, operated by Custom Solar Limited.
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 | Portsmouth (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Western Road, Portsmouth, PO6 3PQ | 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 | 1 Nov 2022 (permit 22/00487/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Portsmouth) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 10 Jun 2022 (reference 22/00487/FUL, planning authority Portsmouth) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 1 Nov 2022 (granted, reference 22/00487/FUL, planning authority Portsmouth) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Custom Solar Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 2 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Battery (co-located with re) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 50.8393, -1.0721 | 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 Portsmouth, reference 22/00487/FUL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Portsmouth, reference 22/00487/FUL)
How it compares
Lakeside Business Park is the 1,435th-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,268th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 2 MW is <0.1% of the 279,068 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 | 1,435th of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,268th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,488th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 187 grid connections (108 operating, 926 MW), 152 substations, 7 data centers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wymering Primary | Substation | — | — | 0.7 km |
| Lakeside 1000 North Harbour grid connection | Grid connection | 5.07 MW | Planned | 0.8 km |
| Wymering BSP | Substation | — | — | 0.8 km |
| Generation 15.96 MW grid connection at Northarbour RD GEN | Grid connection | 16 MW | Operating | 1.0 km |
| Hilsea Primary | Substation | — | — | 1.4 km |
| Landfill gas 2.375 MW grid connection at Portchester | Grid connection | 2.38 MW | Operating | 1.6 km |
| ServerHouse | Data center | — | — | 6.7 km |
| SSE data center, Havant | Data center | — | — | 7.4 km |
| Aquind Interconnector | Transmission line | — | Planned | 9.0 km |
Operator and place
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Other power plants in England
- Drax Power Station Biomass Units2,580 MW
- Ratcliffe-on-Soar2,021 MW
- Cottam2,000 MW
- Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
- West Burton2,000 MW
- Eggborough1,960 MW
- Staythorpe1,828 MW
- Fiddler’s Ferry1,510 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.
- © 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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.