Power plant · South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Larks Lane, Iron Acton - Battery Storage Facility
Larks Lane, Iron Acton - Battery Storage Facility is a planned power plant in South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, with 20 MW of capacity, operated by HD000ACT Limited.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | South Gloucestershire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | E/O Larks Lane, E/O Larks Lane, Bristol, BS37 9TX | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned (planning application submitted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 31 May 2023 (reference P23/01616/F, planning authority South Gloucestershire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | HD000ACT Limited (applicant) | 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 | 51.5703, -2.4752 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit applied for (planning authority South Gloucestershire, reference P23/01616/F)
How it compares
Larks Lane, Iron Acton - Battery Storage Facility is the 974th-largest of 1,651 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,575th-largest of 2,549 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 20 MW is <0.1% of the 279,978 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 | 974th of 1,651 | 172,174 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,575th of 2,549 | 279,978 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 3,572nd of 5,782 | 643,557 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 112 grid connections (68 operating, 876 MW), 53 substations, 12 data centers, 2 transmission lines and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Bristol Isambard-AI | AI supercomputer | 5,448 H100e | Operating | 8.0 km |
| nLighten Bristol | Data center | — | — | 8.1 km |
| Alderton Primary | Substation | — | — | 17 km |
| Castle Combe PV grid connection | Grid connection | 11.4 MW | Operating | 20 km |
| 40MW grid connection | Grid connection | 40 MW | Planned | 22 km |
| Yatton Keynell Primary | Substation | — | — | 22 km |
| Hullavington PV Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 6.65 MW | Operating | 23 km |
| Tetbury Primary | Substation | — | — | 24 km |
| Ark Data Centres | Data center | — | — | 24 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.
- Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, 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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.