Power plant · Cheshire West and Chester, England, United Kingdom
Protos Plastics to Hydrogen Facility (Ince)
Protos Plastics to Hydrogen Facility (Ince) is a permitted power plant in Cheshire West and Chester, England, United Kingdom, with 3.8 MW of capacity, operated by Peel Environmental and Waste2Tricity.
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 | Area 10B Ince Resource Recover, Grinsome Road, Chester, Cheshire, CH2 | 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 | 18 Mar 2020 (permit 19/03489/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 Sept 2019 (reference 19/03489/FUL, planning authority Cheshire West and Chester) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 18 Mar 2020 (granted, reference 19/03489/FUL, planning authority Cheshire West and Chester) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Peel Environmental (Peel Environmental / Waste2tricity) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Waste2Tricity (Peel Environmental / Waste2tricity) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 3.8 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Hydrogen | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.2842, -2.8026 | 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 Cheshire West and Chester, reference 19/03489/FUL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Cheshire West and Chester, reference 19/03489/FUL)
How it compares
Protos Plastics to Hydrogen Facility (Ince) is the 1,727th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,649th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 3.8 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 | 1,727th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,649th of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,804th of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 203 substations, 190 grid connections (115 operating, 830 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 | — | — | 6.2 km |
| nLighten Chester | Data center | — | — | 9.5 km |
| nLighten Edge Data Centre Liverpool | Data center | — | — | 13 km |
| Bold GSP | Substation | — | — | 18 km |
| Unit 1 Junction Lane grid connection | Grid connection | 5.26 MW | Planned | 21 km |
| Parkside Railway Station grid connection | Grid connection | 3 MW | Operating | 22 km |
| Newton Le Willows | Substation | — | — | 23 km |
| Lymes Wood Landfill Site grid connection | Grid connection | 1.17 MW | Operating | 23 km |
| Haydock | Substation | — | — | 24 km |
Operators 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.