Power plant · England, United Kingdom
Mersey Tidal Power Project
Mersey Tidal Power Project is a planned power plant in England, United Kingdom, with 1,000 MW of capacity, operated by Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.
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 | England (North West) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | This will be an in-river proposal, located within the Mersey Riverine environment. The Project will be located towards the mouth of the River Mersey, between the Wirral on the west and Liverpool to the east. | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned (pre-application) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 1 Jan 2028 (reference EN0110006, planning authority The Planning Inspectorate, anticipated, expected January 2028) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (applicant) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 1,000 MW (description) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Tidal Lagoon | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Area | 16,619 ha (application boundary) | planning.data.gov.uk · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.4063, -3.0064 | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · 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.
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Mersey Tidal Power Project is the 31st-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 51st-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1,000 MW is 0.36% 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 | 31st of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | 0.58% |
| United Kingdom | 51st of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | 0.36% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 82nd of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | 0.15% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 173 grid connections (101 operating, 1,026 MW), 160 substations, 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nLighten Edge Data Centre Liverpool | Data center | — | — | 7.3 km |
| Bickerstaffe WTW grid connection | Grid connection | 1.25 MW | Operating | 16 km |
| nLighten Chester | Data center | — | — | 19 km |
| Ormskirk | Substation | — | — | 20 km |
| The Babbage Centre | Data center | — | — | 20 km |
| Bold GSP | Substation | — | — | 21 km |
| Pimbo Road grid connection | Grid connection | 21.1 MW | Operating | 21 km |
| Pennine Place grid connection | Grid connection | 2.3 MW | Operating | 21 km |
| Pimbo | Substation | — | — | 21 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. 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.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. planning.data.gov.uk, 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.