Power plant · North Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom

North Lincolnshire Green Energy Park

North Lincolnshire Green Energy Park is a power plant in North Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, with 95 MW of capacity, operated by Solar 21 Renewable Energy Limited.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	North Lincolnshire (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Flixborough Wharf, Flixborough Industrial Estate, Scunthorpe, DN15 8SE	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Unknown (revised)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Part of	North Lincolnshire Green Energy Park (matched by planning reference)	Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	21 Mar 2022 (reference EN010116, planning authority The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	14 Apr 2022 (withdrawn, reference EN010116, planning authority The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Solar 21 Renewable Energy Limited	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	95 MW	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	EfW Incineration	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	53.6207, -0.6979	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Latest events

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13 Mar 2025Permit granted: North Lincolnshire Green Energy Park (planning authority The Planning Inspectorate, reference EN010116) · source
31 May 2022Permit applied for: North Lincolnshire Green Energy Park (planning authority The Planning Inspectorate, reference EN010116) · source
14 Apr 2022Withdrawn (planning authority The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure, reference EN010116)
21 Mar 2022Permit applied for (planning authority The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure, reference EN010116)

How it compares

North Lincolnshire Green Energy Park is the 99th-largest of 3,430 power plants in England and the 165th-largest of 5,050 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 95 MW is <0.1% of the 115,622 MW we hold for the United Kingdom. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
England	99th of 3,430	71,965 MW	0.13%
United Kingdom	165th of 5,050	115,622 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	1,285th of 12,032	1,190,447 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 403 grid connections (199 operating, 2,839 MW), 203 substations, 3 transmission lines, 3 data centers and 1 gas storage facility, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Battery storage 32 MW grid connection at HRS Phase 2	Grid connection	32 MW	Planned	0.3 km
Biomass 63 MW grid connection at HRS Biomass Direct	Grid connection	63 MW	Planned	0.3 km
Flixborough	Substation	—	—	0.3 km
Biomass 16.15 MW grid connection at Fibrogen	Grid connection	16.2 MW	Operating	0.4 km
Billet Lane	Substation	—	—	2.2 km
Foxhills	Substation	—	—	2.4 km
North Humber to High Marnham	Transmission line	—	Planned	21 km
Continental Link Multi-Purpose Interconnector	Transmission line	—	Cancelled	27 km
Thales	Data center	—	—	30 km

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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.
JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), CC BY 4.0.
Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages. Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages, Facts only, each linked to its page.
Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
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.