Power plant · East Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Rye Meads Sewerage Treatment Works
Rye Meads Sewerage Treatment Works is a biomass power plant in East Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, with 2.3 MW of capacity, operated by Thames Water.
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 | East Hertfordshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Rye Meads STW, Stanstead Abbots, Nr Ware, SG12 8JY | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Operating (operational) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Start year | 2015 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 13 May 2014 (reference 3/14/0768/FP, planning authority East Hertfordshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Thames Water | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 2.3 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Anaerobic Digestion | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.7753, 0.0203 | 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.
- Commissioned
- Permit applied for (planning authority East Hertfordshire, reference 3/14/0768/FP)
How it compares
Rye Meads Sewerage Treatment Works is the 3,217th-largest of 4,035 power plants in England and the 4,694th-largest of 5,834 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 2.3 MW is <0.1% of the 200,500 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 | 3,217th of 4,035 | 134,434 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 4,694th of 5,834 | 200,500 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants in our data | 13,826th of 15,799 | 1,918,113 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 96 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 56 substations, 20 grid connections (11 operating, 96.2 MW), 1 AI supercomputer and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kao Data KLON-02 | Data center | — | — | 7.5 km |
| Kao Data KLON-01 | Data center | — | — | 7.5 km |
| NVIDIA Cambridge-1 | AI supercomputer | 202 H100e | Operating | 7.7 km |
| Google Datacentre Waltham Cross | Data center | — | — | 10 km |
| North London (Electricity Line) Reinforcement | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 20 km |
| Tertiary Study grid connection | Grid connection | 57 MW | Planned | 29 km |
| Willesden GSP | Substation | — | — | 33 km |
| Canal Bank 11kV Primary | Substation | — | — | 33 km |
| Canal Bank 6.6kV Primary | Substation | — | — | 33 km |
Operator and place
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Data on this page
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- 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.
- 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.
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- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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