Power plant · County Durham, England, United Kingdom
Salters Lane - Solar Panels
Salters Lane - Solar Panels is a planned battery storage plant in County Durham, England, United Kingdom, with 18 MW of capacity, operated by Grupotec Solar Uk 9 Limited.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | County Durham (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | South Sharpley Farm, Salters Lane, Seaham, SR7 0NJ | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned (planning application submitted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 11 Jul 2025 (reference DM/25/01801/FPA, planning authority Durham) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Grupotec Solar Uk 9 Limited (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 18 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Battery (co-located with re) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 54.8344, -1.4117 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit applied for (planning authority Durham, reference DM/25/01801/FPA)
How it compares
Salters Lane - Solar Panels is the 1,048th-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,699th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 18 MW is <0.1% of the 279,068 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 | 1,048th of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,699th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 3,841st of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 285 grid connections (146 operating, 1,810 MW), 164 substations and 5 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wind 6 MW grid connection at Hawthorn Pit | Grid connection | 6 MW | Operating | 0.7 km |
| Wind 7.79 MW grid connection at Stoney Cut | Grid connection | 7.79 MW | Operating | 1.1 km |
| Battery storage and Solar 118.5 MW grid connection at Salters Lane PV | Grid connection | 119 MW | Planned | 2.0 km |
| Hawthorn Pit Grid | Substation | — | — | 3.2 km |
| Hawthorn Pit | Substation | — | — | 3.3 km |
| Stoney Cut | Substation | — | — | 4.0 km |
| Stellium Newcastle Campus | Data center | — | — | 21 km |
| DXC Wynyard Data Center | Data center | — | — | 23 km |
| Lumen Technologies data center, Middlesbrough | Data center | — | — | 31 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.
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- Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
- © 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.
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