Power plant · Cheshire West and Chester, England, United Kingdom
Rectory Lane - Energy Storage System
Rectory Lane - Energy Storage System is a permitted power plant in Cheshire West and Chester, England, United Kingdom, with 200 MW of capacity, operated by Net Zero Eighteen 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 | Cheshire West and Chester (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Rectory Lane, Capenhurst, South Wirral, CH66 0NG | 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 | 19 May 2025 (permit 24/02219/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 | 27 Aug 2024 (reference 24/02219/FUL, planning authority Cheshire West and Chester) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 19 May 2025 (granted, reference 24/02219/FUL, planning authority Cheshire West and Chester) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Net Zero Eighteen Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 200 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 | 53.2632, -2.9620 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit granted (planning authority Cheshire West and Chester, reference 24/02219/FUL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Cheshire West and Chester, reference 24/02219/FUL)
How it compares
Rectory Lane - Energy Storage System is the 177th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 279th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 200 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 | 177th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | 0.11% |
| United Kingdom | 279th of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 741st of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 113 grid connections (68 operating, 550 MW), 91 substations, 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nLighten Chester | Data center | — | — | 2.9 km |
| nLighten Edge Data Centre Liverpool | Data center | — | — | 8.9 km |
| The Babbage Centre | Data center | — | — | 17 km |
| Bold GSP | Substation | — | — | 26 km |
| Unit 1 Junction Lane grid connection | Grid connection | 5.26 MW | Planned | 30 km |
| Bickerstaffe WTW grid connection | Grid connection | 1.25 MW | Operating | 30 km |
| Amazon Man 8 grid connection | Grid connection | 1.39 MW | Planned | 31 km |
| Newton Le Willows | Substation | — | — | 31 km |
| Haydock | Substation | — | — | 32 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.