Power plant · Stockton-on-Tees, England, United Kingdom
Seal Sands Power Station
Seal Sands Power Station is a cancelled power plant in Stockton-on-Tees, England, United Kingdom, with 24 MW of capacity, operated by Seneca Global Energy.
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 | Stockton-on-Tees (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Billingham, Cleveland, TS23 3NF | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Cancelled (planning permission expired) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 29 Apr 2013 (permit 12/2766/EIS, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Stockton-on-Tees) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 20 Nov 2012 (reference 12/2766/EIS, planning authority Stockton-on-Tees) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 29 Apr 2013 (granted, reference 12/2766/EIS, planning authority Stockton-on-Tees) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Seneca Global Energy (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 24 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Advanced Conversion Technologies | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 54.6139, -1.1753 | 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.
- Permit expired
- Permit granted (planning authority Stockton-on-Tees, reference 12/2766/EIS)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Stockton-on-Tees, reference 12/2766/EIS)
How it compares
Seal Sands is the 798th-largest of 4,035 power plants in England and the 1,322nd-largest of 5,834 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 24 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 | 798th of 4,035 | 134,434 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,322nd of 5,834 | 200,500 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants in our data | 6,012th of 15,799 | 1,918,113 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 244 grid connections (126 operating, 1,255 MW), 141 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gas 4 MW grid connection at Tees Industrial T1 T2 | Grid connection | 4 MW | Operating | 0.2 km |
| Generation 4.4 MW grid connection at Tees Industrial T3 T4 | Grid connection | 4.4 MW | Operating | 0.2 km |
| Tees Industrial T1 T2 | Substation | — | — | 0.6 km |
| Gas 50 MW grid connection at Phillips Petroleum | Grid connection | 50 MW | Planned | 0.6 km |
| Seal Sands | Substation | — | — | 1.9 km |
| Greatham Direct | Substation | — | — | 2.6 km |
| Lumen Technologies data center, Middlesbrough | Data center | — | — | 5.5 km |
| DXC Wynyard Data Center | Data center | — | — | 8.9 km |
| Data center, Redcar (OSM way 1055031579) | Data center | — | — | 9.6 km |
Operator and place
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- Eggborough1,960 MW
- Staythorpe1,828 MW
- Fiddler’s Ferry1,510 MW
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.