Power plant · Dorset, England, United Kingdom
Shaftesbury Energy Park - Battery Storage System
Shaftesbury Energy Park - Battery Storage System is a permitted battery storage plant in Dorset, England, United Kingdom, with 100 MW of capacity, operated by Tag 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 | Dorset (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Hawkers Hill Farm Shaftesbury Road Motcombe, SP7 9NP | 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 | 29 Mar 2023 (permit P/FUL/2022/06179, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Dorset) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 12 Oct 2022 (reference P/FUL/2022/06179, planning authority Dorset) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 29 Mar 2023 (granted, reference P/FUL/2022/06179, planning authority Dorset) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Tag Energy (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 100 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 | 51.0138, -2.2101 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit granted (planning authority Dorset, reference P/FUL/2022/06179)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Dorset, reference P/FUL/2022/06179)
How it compares
Shaftesbury Energy Park - Battery Storage System is the 234th-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 401st-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 100 MW is <0.1% of the 278,868 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 | 234th of 1,650 | 171,064 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 401st of 2,548 | 278,868 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 1,267th of 5,799 | 656,876 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 195 grid connections (120 operating, 1,052 MW), 122 substations and 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shaftesbury BSP | Substation | — | — | 0.1 km |
| Hawkers Hill Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 99.9 MW | Planned | 0.2 km |
| Hawkers Hill grid connection | Grid connection | 19 MW | Operating | 0.2 km |
| Shaftesbury Primary | Substation | — | — | 0.6 km |
| Motcombe Solar grid connection | Grid connection | 12 MW | Planned | 0.8 km |
| Gillingham Primary | Substation | — | — | 5.5 km |
| Data Vault - Bournemouth BCP01 | Data center | — | — | 40 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 996865179) | Data center | — | — | 45 km |
| Ark Data Centres | Data center | — | — | 45 km |
Operator and place
Grid connections attached to this power plant
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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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- © 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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