Power plant · Basildon, England, United Kingdom
Lower Dunton Road - Battery Energy Storage System
Lower Dunton Road - Battery Energy Storage System is a planned battery storage plant in Basildon, England, United Kingdom, with 368 MW of capacity, operated by LJ Construction UK Limited.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Basildon (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Lower Dunton Road, Langdon Hills, Basildon, SS16 6EB | 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 | 25 Oct 2024 (reference 24/01239/FULL, planning authority Basildon) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | LJ Construction UK Limited (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 368 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 | 51.5673, 0.3959 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit applied for (planning authority Basildon, reference 24/01239/FULL)
How it compares
Lower Dunton Road - Battery Energy Storage System is the 126th-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 187th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 368 MW is 0.13% 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 | 126th of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | 0.21% |
| United Kingdom | 187th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | 0.13% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 436th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 70 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 18 substations, 2 grid connections (1 operating, 2.2 MW), 1 AI supercomputer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imperium 315 | Data center | — | — | 6.5 km |
| Fujitsu Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 13 km |
| NTT London 1 | Data center | — | — | 15 km |
| NVIDIA Cambridge-1 | AI supercomputer | 202 H100e | Operating | 29 km |
| North London (Electricity Line) Reinforcement | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 31 km |
| Tertiary Study grid connection | Grid connection | 57 MW | Planned | 34 km |
| Ariel Way White City London grid connection | Grid connection | 2.2 MW | Operating | 43 km |
| Volt Avenue Primary | Substation | — | — | 45 km |
| Willesden GSP | Substation | — | — | 45 km |
Operator and place
Other power plants in England
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- 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.
- Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, 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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.