Power plant · East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Melton Waste Park

Melton Waste Park is a wind power plant in East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, with 5 MW of capacity, operated by Seneca Global Energy.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	East Riding of Yorkshire (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Land South West Of Melton Waste, Gibson Lane, Melton, North Ferriby, HU14 3HH	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating (operational)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	2017	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Onshore or offshore	Onshore	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	20 Apr 2015 (permit 14/03951/STPLFE, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by East Riding of Yorkshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	3 Feb 2015 (reference 14/03951/STPLFE, planning authority East Riding of Yorkshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	20 Apr 2015 (granted, reference 14/03951/STPLFE, planning authority East Riding of Yorkshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Seneca Global Energy	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	5 MW	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Units	2 units (2.5 MW per unit)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Wind Onshore	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	53.7181, -0.5303	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Latest events

Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.

1 Mar 2017Commissioned
20 Apr 2015Permit granted (planning authority East Riding of Yorkshire, reference 14/03951/STPLFE)
3 Feb 2015Permit applied for (planning authority East Riding of Yorkshire, reference 14/03951/STPLFE)

How it compares

Melton Waste Park is the 2,172nd-largest of 4,035 power plants in England and the 3,288th-largest of 5,834 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 5 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	2,172nd of 4,035	134,434 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	3,288th of 5,834	200,500 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	11,909th of 15,799	1,918,113 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.

2017Started operating

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 339 grid connections (169 operating, 2,501 MW), 162 substations, 2 transmission lines, 1 gas storage facility and 1 data center, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Gibson Lane	Substation	—	—	0.4 km
Solar 4 MW grid connection at Gibson Lane	Grid connection	4 MW	Planned	0.4 km
Battery storage and Solar and Wind 7.9 MW grid connection at Gibson Lane	Grid connection	7.9 MW	Planned	0.7 km
Gibson Lane Wind Farm grid connection	Grid connection	24 MW	Planned	0.8 km
Skillings Lane	Substation	—	—	3.0 km
Hull West	Substation	—	—	4.5 km
Continental Link Multi-Purpose Interconnector	Transmission line	—	Cancelled	12 km
Aldbrough Hydrogen Storage	Gas storage facility	—	Planned	31 km
North Humber to High Marnham	Transmission line	—	Planned	36 km

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Data on this page

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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.
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