Power plant · Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Moston Vale
Moston Vale is a power plant under construction in Manchester, England, United Kingdom, with 10 MW of capacity, operated by Novus Renewable Services 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 | Manchester (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Land To The South West Of, Moston Vale, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M40 9GJ | 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 | 24 Nov 2020 (permit 127629/FO/2020, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Manchester) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 31 Jul 2020 (reference 127629/FO/2020, planning authority Manchester) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 24 Nov 2020 (granted, reference 127629/FO/2020, planning authority Manchester) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Novus Renewable Services Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 10 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 | 53.5061, -2.2046 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Moston Vale is the 1,441st-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,237th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 10 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 | 1,441st of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,237th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,307th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 421 grid connections (230 operating, 2,065 MW), 129 substations, 20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queens Park grid connection | Grid connection | 10 MW | Planned | 0.1 km |
| Reliance Street grid connection | Grid connection | 2.1 MW | Operating | 1.8 km |
| North Manchester General Hospital grid connection | Grid connection | 1.5 MW | Operating | 1.9 km |
| Asanti Manchester | Data center | — | — | 3.8 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 703959498) | Data center | — | — | 4.6 km |
| Equinix MA1 | Data center | — | — | 5.1 km |
| Slaithwaite | Substation | — | — | 23 km |
| Todmorden | Substation | — | — | 24 km |
| Meltham | Substation | — | — | 26 km |
Operator and place
Grid connections attached to this power plant
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- Oaks Farm - Solar Farm37 MW · permitted
- Ducklington Solar Farm36 MW · under construction
- Marsh Lane, Gowhole - Energy Storage System30 MW · permitted
- The Village Of Halse - Solar Array25 MW · permitted
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Other power plants in England
- Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
- Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind Farm1,500 MW
- Hornsea 2 - Optimus and Breesea1,320 MW
- Hornsea 1 - Heron & Njord1,218 MW
- Atlantic Array One - Bristol Channel Zone1,200 MW
- Five Estuaries - Wind Farm1,080 MW
- Rugeley Power Plant Conversion1,000 MW
- Teesworks Battery Storage Project1,000 MW
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.
- 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.
- Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Rare Context entity resolution. Rare Context entity resolution, CC0 1.0.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.