Power plant · North Kesteven, England, United Kingdom
Little Hale Drove, Little Hale Fen - Battery Storage
Little Hale Drove, Little Hale Fen - Battery Storage is a permitted power plant in North Kesteven, England, United Kingdom, with 99 MW of capacity, operated by Root Power 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 | North Kesteven (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Lying To The South Of Little Hale Drove Little Hale Fen, NG34 9BG | 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 | 14 Mar 2025 (permit 24/1265/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by North Kesteven) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 8 Nov 2024 (reference 24/1265/FUL, planning authority North Kesteven) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 14 Mar 2025 (granted, reference 24/1265/FUL, planning authority North Kesteven) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Root Power Limited (Root-Power (South) Limited) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 99 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 | 52.9484, -0.2583 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Little Hale Drove, Little Hale Fen - Battery Storage is the 319th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 526th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 99 MW is <0.1% of the 300,661 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 | 319th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 526th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 1,440th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 148 grid connections (3 operating, 9.7 MW), 5 transmission lines, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Land at grid connection | Grid connection | — | — | 0.2 km |
| Land Northwest of, UKD782 grid connection | Grid connection | — | — | 1.6 km |
| Land at Ash Farm, Vicarage Drove grid connection | Grid connection | — | — | 3.0 km |
| Triton Knoll Electrical System | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 3.2 km |
| Eastern Green Link 3 and Eastern Green Link 4 | Transmission line | — | Planned | 12 km |
| Digital Space DC - Newark | Data center | — | — | 39 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 87850427) | Data center | — | — | 44 km |
| Belmont Covert | Substation | — | — | 44 km |
| Positive Park | Data center | — | — | 46 km |
Operator and place
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- Rugeley Power Plant Conversion1,000 MW
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Data on this page
- DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD). 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.
- NGED Connected Data portal. NGED Connected Data portal, Terms not verified.
- 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.
- Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects. 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.