Power plant · Staffordshire Moorlands, England, United Kingdom
Newfields Farm, Rownall Road - Battery Energy Storage
Newfields Farm, Rownall Road - Battery Energy Storage is a permitted power plant in Staffordshire Moorlands, England, United Kingdom, with 99.9 MW of capacity, operated by REPD 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 | Staffordshire Moorlands (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Newfields Farm, Rownall Road, Wetley Rocks, Stoke on Trent, ST9 0BS | 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 | 10 Jul 2025 (permit SMD/2024/0556, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Staffordshire Moorlands) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 27 Jan 2025 (reference SMD/2024/0556, planning authority Staffordshire Moorlands) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 10 Jul 2025 (granted, reference SMD/2024/0556, planning authority Staffordshire Moorlands) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | REPD Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 99.9 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 | 53.0484, -2.0730 | 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 Staffordshire Moorlands, reference SMD/2024/0556)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Staffordshire Moorlands, reference SMD/2024/0556)
How it compares
Newfields Farm, Rownall Road - Battery Energy Storage is the 296th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 501st-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 99.9 MW is <0.1% of the 300,461 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 | 296th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 501st of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 1,415th of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 126 substations, 103 grid connections (62 operating, 548 MW), 11 data centers, 3 gas storage facilities and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internet Central data center, England | Data center | — | — | 14 km |
| Dane Moss Solar PV grid connection | Grid connection | 7.5 MW | Planned | 22 km |
| Danes Moss Landfill Site 2 grid connection | Grid connection | 2.1 MW | Operating | 22 km |
| Danes Moss Landfill Site 3 grid connection | Grid connection | 1.01 MW | Operating | 22 km |
| S.E. Macclesfield | Substation | — | — | 23 km |
| S.W. Macclesfield | Substation | — | — | 23 km |
| Withyfold Drive | Substation | — | — | 24 km |
| Salinae Hydrogen Storage project | Gas storage facility | — | Planned | 27 km |
| Keuper Gas Storage Project | Gas storage facility | — | Permitted | 31 km |
Operator and place
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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.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.