Power plant · Cheshire West and Chester, England, United Kingdom
Plot 8 Protos/Ince Marshes
Plot 8 Protos/Ince Marshes is a power plant under construction in Cheshire West and Chester, England, United Kingdom, with 35 MW of capacity, operated by This is Protos.
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 | Cheshire West and Chester (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Land At Plot 8 Protos, Grinsome Road, Ince, Ellesmere Port, Chester, CH2 | 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 | 7 Sept 2017 (permit 16/03074/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Cheshire West and Chester) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 18 Jul 2016 (reference 16/03074/FUL, planning authority Cheshire West and Chester) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 7 Sept 2017 (granted, reference 16/03074/FUL, planning authority Cheshire West and Chester) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | This is Protos (This is Protos (Peel Environmental)) | 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 | EfW Incineration | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.2838, -2.8237 | 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.
Request researchLatest events
Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Construction started
- Permit granted (planning authority Cheshire West and Chester, reference 16/03074/FUL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Cheshire West and Chester, reference 16/03074/FUL)
How it compares
Plot 8 Protos/Ince Marshes is the 763rd-largest of 1,651 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,253rd-largest of 2,549 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 35 MW is <0.1% of the 279,978 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 | 763rd of 1,651 | 172,174 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,253rd of 2,549 | 279,978 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 2,536th of 5,782 | 643,557 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 195 substations, 182 grid connections (109 operating, 806 MW), 18 data centers, 3 gas storage facilities and 2 transmission lines, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Babbage Centre | Data center | — | — | 7.4 km |
| nLighten Chester | Data center | — | — | 8.2 km |
| nLighten Edge Data Centre Liverpool | Data center | — | — | 12 km |
| Bold GSP | Substation | — | — | 19 km |
| Unit 1 Junction Lane grid connection | Grid connection | 5.26 MW | Planned | 22 km |
| Newton Le Willows | Substation | — | — | 23 km |
| Parkside Railway Station grid connection | Grid connection | 3 MW | Operating | 23 km |
| Lymes Wood Landfill Site grid connection | Grid connection | 1.17 MW | Operating | 23 km |
| Haydock | Substation | — | — | 24 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.