Power plant · St. Helens, England, United Kingdom
Lock Street Energy from Waste Plant
Lock Street Energy from Waste Plant is a cancelled power plant in St. Helens, England, United Kingdom, with 10.6 MW of capacity, operated by Waste to Energy.
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 | St. Helens (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Ravenhead Glass Warehouse, Lock Street, St Helens, | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Cancelled (planning permission refused) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 21 Jun 2013 (reference P/2013/0475, planning authority St. Helens) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 31 Mar 2014 (refused, reference P/2013/0475, planning authority St. Helens) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Waste to Energy (WASTE TO ENERGY (NW), applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 10.6 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | EfW Incineration | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.4610, -2.7242 | 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.
- Permit refused (planning authority St. Helens, reference P/2013/0475)
- Permit applied for (planning authority St. Helens, reference P/2013/0475)
How it compares
Lock Street Energy from Waste Plant is the 1,431st-largest of 4,035 power plants in England and the 2,282nd-largest of 5,834 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 10.6 MW is <0.1% of the 200,500 MW we hold for the United Kingdom. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.
| Within | Rank | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1,431st of 4,035 | 134,434 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,282nd of 5,834 | 200,500 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants in our data | 10,239th of 15,799 | 1,918,113 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 350 grid connections (197 operating, 1,804 MW), 337 substations, 17 data centers, 3 gas storage facilities and 2 transmission lines, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bold GSP | Substation | — | — | 3.6 km |
| Billinge Hill Quarry Landfill grid connection | Grid connection | 1.03 MW | Operating | 3.9 km |
| Amazon Man 8 grid connection | Grid connection | 1.39 MW | Planned | 4.0 km |
| Hall Wood Avenue grid connection | Grid connection | 1.78 MW | Operating | 5.2 km |
| Haydock | Substation | — | — | 5.8 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 1551100328) | Data center | — | — | 5.8 km |
| Newton Le Willows | Substation | — | — | 6.0 km |
| Iron Mountain | Data center | — | — | 8.1 km |
| Verizon Warrington | Data center | — | — | 9.3 km |
Operator and place
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. DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- 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.
- JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), CC BY 4.0.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages. Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages, Facts only, each linked to its page.
- © 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.