Power plant · North Tyneside, England, United Kingdom
Lhyfe Wallsend - Green Hydrogen Plant
Lhyfe Wallsend - Green Hydrogen Plant is a permitted hydroelectric power plant in North Tyneside, England, United Kingdom, with 20 MW of capacity, operated by Shepherd Offshore plc.
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 | North Tyneside (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | S/O Neptune Road, Wallsend, NE28 6BW | 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 | 6 Jun 2025 (permit 24/00455/FULM, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by North Tyneside) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 30 Apr 2024 (reference 24/00455/FULM, planning authority North Tyneside) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 6 Jun 2025 (granted, reference 24/00455/FULM, planning authority North Tyneside) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Shepherd Offshore plc (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 | Hydrogen | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 54.9857, -1.5336 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit granted (planning authority North Tyneside, reference 24/00455/FULM)
- Permit applied for (planning authority North Tyneside, reference 24/00455/FULM)
How it compares
Lhyfe Wallsend - Green Hydrogen Plant is the 973rd-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,574th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 20 MW is <0.1% of the 278,868 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 | 973rd of 1,650 | 171,064 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,574th of 2,548 | 278,868 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 3,589th of 5,799 | 656,876 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 253 grid connections (129 operating, 1,748 MW), 144 substations and 3 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walker | Substation | — | — | 1.1 km |
| Hebburn | Substation | — | — | 1.3 km |
| Hebburn West | Substation | — | — | 1.6 km |
| Waste 5.7 MW grid connection at Howdon | Grid connection | 5.7 MW | Operating | 3.6 km |
| Battery storage 6 MW grid connection at Gateshead East | Grid connection | 6 MW | Planned | 3.7 km |
| Battery storage 49.9 MW grid connection at Flatworth BESS | Grid connection | 49.9 MW | Planned | 3.8 km |
| Stellium Newcastle Campus | Data center | — | — | 4.0 km |
| DXC Wynyard Data Center | Data center | — | — | 42 km |
| Lumen Technologies data center, Middlesbrough | Data center | — | — | 49 km |
Operator and place
Other power plants in England
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- 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.
- Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
- © 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.