Power plant · Wigan, England, United Kingdom
Sandyforth Farm, Ashton Road - Battery Energy Storage
Sandyforth Farm, Ashton Road - Battery Energy Storage is a permitted power plant in Wigan, England, United Kingdom, with 70 MW of capacity, operated by UKGEA.
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 | Wigan (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Sandyforth Farm, Ashton Road, Billinge, Wigan, WN5 7XZ | 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 | 25 Feb 2025 (permit A/23/96568/MAJOR, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Wigan) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 7 Feb 2024 (reference A/23/96568/MAJOR, planning authority Wigan) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 25 Feb 2025 (granted, reference A/23/96568/MAJOR, planning authority Wigan) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | UKGEA | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 70 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 | 53.5117, -2.6797 | 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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Sandyforth Farm, Ashton Road - Battery Energy Storage is the 359th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 626th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 70 MW is <0.1% of the 300,661 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 | 359th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 626th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 1,580th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 373 grid connections (209 operating, 1,857 MW), 355 substations, 17 data centers, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orrell BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 70 MW | Planned | 0.3 km |
| Symmetry Park grid connection | Grid connection | 7 MW | Planned | 1.9 km |
| Leopold St grid connection | Grid connection | 6 MW | Operating | 2.3 km |
| Lamberhead | Substation | — | — | 2.3 km |
| Ashton (Golborne) | Substation | — | — | 2.5 km |
| Worsley Mesnes | Substation | — | — | 3.4 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 1551100328) | Data center | — | — | 4.9 km |
| Iron Mountain | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
| Verizon Warrington | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
Operator and place
Grid connections attached to this power plant
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Data on this page
- DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD). 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.
- Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Rare Context entity resolution. Rare Context entity resolution, CC0 1.0.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.