Power plant · Staffordshire Moorlands, England, United Kingdom
Leek Road, Werrington - Battery Energy Storage
Leek Road, Werrington - Battery Energy Storage is a planned battery storage plant in Staffordshire Moorlands, England, United Kingdom, with 300 MW of capacity, operated by Masdar Arlington Energy.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Staffordshire Moorlands (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Leek Road, Werrington, Stoke on Trent, ST9 0DQ | 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 | 5 Aug 2025 (reference SMD/2025/0354, planning authority Staffordshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Masdar Arlington Energy (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 300 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 | 53.0237, -2.0645 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit applied for (planning authority Staffordshire, reference SMD/2025/0354)
How it compares
Leek Road, Werrington - Battery Energy Storage is the 140th-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 212th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 300 MW is 0.11% 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 | 140th of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | 0.18% |
| United Kingdom | 212th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | 0.11% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 488th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 78 substations, 72 grid connections (40 operating, 352 MW), 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internet Central data center, England | Data center | — | — | 14 km |
| Dane Moss Solar PV grid connection | Grid connection | 7.5 MW | Planned | 25 km |
| Danes Moss Landfill Site 2 grid connection | Grid connection | 2.1 MW | Operating | 25 km |
| Danes Moss Landfill Site 3 grid connection | Grid connection | 1.01 MW | Operating | 25 km |
| S.E. Macclesfield | Substation | — | — | 25 km |
| S.W. Macclesfield | Substation | — | — | 26 km |
| Withyfold Drive | Substation | — | — | 27 km |
| Salinae Hydrogen Storage project | Gas storage facility | — | Planned | 29 km |
| Keuper Gas Storage Project | Gas storage facility | — | Permitted | 33 km |
Operator and place
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- 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.
- 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.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.