Power plant · East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Melton Waste Park
Melton Waste Park is a permitted power plant in East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, with 22 MW of capacity, operated by Transwaste Recycling & Aggregates 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 | 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 Wast, Gibson Lane, Melton, North Ferriby, HU14 3HH | 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 | 28 Feb 2019 (permit 18/00703/CM, 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 | 10 Apr 2018 (ref. 18/00703/CM, East Riding of Yorkshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 28 Feb 2019 (granted, ref. 18/00703/CM, East Riding of Yorkshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Transwaste Recycling & Aggregates Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 22 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 | 53.7245, -0.5280 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Melton Waste Park is the 1,177th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,841st-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 22 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 | 1,177th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,841st of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 3,604th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 350 grid connections (169 operating, 2,501 MW), 163 substations, 2 transmission lines and 1 CO2 emitter, 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 Wind Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 24 MW | Planned | 0.1 km |
| Wind 4.6 MW grid connection at Gibson Lane Windfarm | Grid connection | 4.6 MW | Operating | 0.1 km |
| Battery storage and Solar and Wind 7.9 MW grid connection at Gibson Lane | Grid connection | 7.9 MW | Planned | 0.3 km |
| Gibson Lane | Substation | — | — | 0.5 km |
| Skillings Lane | Substation | — | — | 3.0 km |
| Hull West | Substation | — | — | 4.3 km |
| Continental Link Multi-Purpose Interconnector | Transmission line | — | Cancelled | 11 km |
| Aldbrough Hydrogen Storage | CO2 emitter | — | Planned | 31 km |
| North Humber to High Marnham | Transmission line | — | Planned | 37 km |
Operator and place
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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.
- Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
- 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.