Power plant · Cheshire West and Chester, England, United Kingdom
Lostock
Lostock is a power plant under construction in Cheshire West and Chester, England, United Kingdom, with 60 MW of capacity, operated by Tata Chemicals Europe.
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 | Cheshire West and Chester (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Northwich, Cheshire, CW9 7WL | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Under construction | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 2 Oct 2012 (permit S36, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Cheshire West and Chester) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 25 Feb 2010 (reference S36, planning authority Cheshire West and Chester) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 2 Oct 2012 (granted, reference S36, planning authority Cheshire West and Chester) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Tata Chemicals Europe (Tata Chemicals Europe (formerly Brunner Mond & E.on)) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 60 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 | 53.2621, -2.5059 | 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.
- Construction started
- Permit granted (planning authority Cheshire West and Chester, reference S36)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Cheshire West and Chester, reference S36)
How it compares
Lostock is the 344th-largest of 1,651 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 619th-largest of 2,549 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 60 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 | 344th of 1,651 | 172,174 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 619th of 2,549 | 279,978 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 1,608th of 5,782 | 643,557 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 261 substations, 253 grid connections (141 operating, 1,177 MW), 18 data centers and 3 gas storage facilities, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keuper Underground Gas Storage Facility Material Change 1 | Gas storage facility | — | Planned | 5.2 km |
| Keuper Gas Storage Project | Gas storage facility | — | Permitted | 6.2 km |
| Salinae Hydrogen Storage project | Gas storage facility | — | Planned | 13 km |
| Rixton Old Hall grid connection | Grid connection | 1.03 MW | Operating | 15 km |
| Chelford | Substation | — | — | 16 km |
| The Babbage Centre | Data center | — | — | 17 km |
| Bowdon | Substation | — | — | 17 km |
| Woodhouse Nurseries grid connection | Grid connection | 3.4 MW | Operating | 17 km |
| Altrincham BSP | Substation | — | — | 18 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.
- 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.