Power plant · Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Norrington Gate Farm, Broughton Gifford - Battery Energy Storage Facility
Norrington Gate Farm, Broughton Gifford - Battery Energy Storage Facility is a permitted power plant in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, with 150 MW of capacity, operated by ADV 003 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 | Wiltshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Norrington Gate Farm, Norrington Gate, Broughton Gifford, Melksham, SN12 8LW | 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 | 6 Jan 2023 (permit PL/2022/03914, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Wiltshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 13 Jun 2022 (reference PL/2022/03914, planning authority Wiltshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 6 Jan 2023 (granted, reference PL/2022/03914, planning authority Wiltshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | ADV 003 Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 150 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 | 51.3760, -2.1684 | 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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Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Permit granted (planning authority Wiltshire, reference PL/2022/03914)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Wiltshire, reference PL/2022/03914)
How it compares
Norrington Gate Farm, Broughton Gifford - Battery Energy Storage Facility is the 219th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 349th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 150 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 | 219th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 349th of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 998th of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 183 grid connections (112 operating, 1,199 MW), 98 substations, 7 data centers, 2 transmission lines 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norrington Gate Battery 150MW grid connection | Grid connection | 150 MW | Planned | 0.3 km |
| Norrington PV Generation grid connection | Grid connection | 9.5 MW | Operating | 0.8 km |
| Norrington BSP | Substation | — | — | 0.9 km |
| 25.3MW Battery grid connection | Grid connection | 25.3 MW | Planned | 1.0 km |
| Melksham Town Primary | Substation | — | — | 1.8 km |
| Melksham GSP | Substation | — | — | 2.2 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 996865179) | Data center | — | — | 5.8 km |
| Ark Data Centres | Data center | — | — | 5.9 km |
| University of Bristol Isambard-AI | AI supercomputer | 5,448 H100e | Operating | 25 km |
Operator and place
Grid connections attached to this power plant
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.