Power plant · Dartford, England, United Kingdom
New Barn Road - Battery Energy Storage Facility
New Barn Road - Battery Energy Storage Facility is a permitted battery storage plant in Dartford, England, United Kingdom, with 35 MW of capacity, operated by Aton Energy Development 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 | Dartford (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | East Side Of New Barn Road, Gravesend, DA13 9PA | 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 | 15 Feb 2024 (permit 23/00863/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Dartford) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 7 Aug 2023 (reference 23/00863/FUL, planning authority Dartford) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 15 Feb 2024 (granted, reference 23/00863/FUL, planning authority Dartford) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Aton Energy Development Limited (Aton Energy Development (Northfleet) Limited, applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 35 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 | 51.4211, 0.3148 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · 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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- Permit granted (planning authority Dartford, reference 23/00863/FUL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Dartford, reference 23/00863/FUL)
How it compares
New Barn Road - Battery Energy Storage Facility is the 762nd-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,252nd-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 35 MW is <0.1% 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 | 762nd of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,252nd of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 2,552nd of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 81 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 25 substations, 3 grid connections (1 operating, 2.2 MW), 1 transmission line and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CustodianDC DA2 | Data center | — | — | 5.3 km |
| Fujitsu Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 7.4 km |
| OVH data center, England | Data center | — | — | 13 km |
| Tertiary Study grid connection | Grid connection | 57 MW | Planned | 30 km |
| North London (Electricity Line) Reinforcement | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 32 km |
| Ariel Way White City London grid connection | Grid connection | 2.2 MW | Operating | 38 km |
| NVIDIA Cambridge-1 | AI supercomputer | 202 H100e | Operating | 41 km |
| Goldsmiths Primary | Substation | — | — | 41 km |
| Southfield Road Primary | Substation | — | — | 41 km |
Operator and place
Other power plants in England
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- 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.
- 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.