Power plant · South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Severn Road, Hallen - Battery Storage Facility
Severn Road, Hallen - Battery Storage Facility is a permitted power plant in South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, with 70 MW of capacity, operated by EL Avonmouth 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 | South Gloucestershire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Severn Road, Hallen, Bristol, BS10 7RZ | 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 | 24 Feb 2025 (permit P23/02741/F, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by South Gloucestershire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 26 Sept 2023 (reference P23/02741/F, planning authority South Gloucestershire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 24 Feb 2025 (granted, reference P23/02741/F, planning authority South Gloucestershire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | EL Avonmouth Limited | 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 | 51.5287, -2.6580 | 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 granted (planning authority South Gloucestershire, reference P23/02741/F)
- Permit applied for (planning authority South Gloucestershire, reference P23/02741/F)
How it compares
Severn Road, Hallen - Battery Storage Facility 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 300,461 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 | 359th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 626th of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 1,580th of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 76 grid connections (46 operating, 615 MW), 30 substations, 11 data centers, 2 transmission lines and 1 AI supercomputer, 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 Bristol | Data center | — | — | 5.4 km |
| University of Bristol Isambard-AI | AI supercomputer | 5,448 H100e | Operating | 13 km |
| Hinkley Point C Connection | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 23 km |
| Hinkley Point C Connection Project Material Change | Transmission line | — | Planned | 24 km |
| Insight Data Ltd | Data center | — | — | 26 km |
| Vantage Data Centers - CWL13 | Data center | — | — | 26 km |
| Alderton Primary | Substation | — | — | 30 km |
| Castle Combe PV grid connection | Grid connection | 11.4 MW | Operating | 31 km |
| Homewood Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 1 MW | Planned | 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.
- Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, 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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.