Power plant · Bury, England, United Kingdom
Shore Top Farm, Kearsley Road - Battery Energy Storage
Shore Top Farm, Kearsley Road - Battery Energy Storage is a permitted power plant in Bury, England, United Kingdom, with 11 MW of capacity, operated by Taiyo Power & Storage 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 | Bury (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Shore Top Farm, Kearsley Road, Radcliffe, Manchester, M26 1FA | 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 | 20 Nov 2025 (permit 71888, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Bury) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 22 Jun 2025 (ref. 71888, Bury) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 20 Nov 2025 (granted, ref. 71888, Bury) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Taiyo Power & Storage Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 11 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Battery | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.5504, -2.3475 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Shore Top Farm, Kearsley Road - Battery Energy Storage is the 1,429th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,221st-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 11 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 | 1,429th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,221st of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,225th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 417 grid connections (229 operating, 2,059 MW), 90 substations, 3 CO2 emitters and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shore Top Farm BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 11 MW | Planned | 0.6 km |
| Shoreside Stables 1 grid connection | Grid connection | 7 MW | Planned | 0.9 km |
| Bolton WWTW grid connection | Grid connection | 1.06 MW | Operating | 1.1 km |
| Todmorden | Substation | — | — | 24 km |
| Hebden Bridge | Substation | — | — | 30 km |
| Slaithwaite | Substation | — | — | 30 km |
| Keuper Underground Gas Storage Facility Material Change 1 | CO2 emitter | — | Planned | 36 km |
| Keuper Gas Storage Project | CO2 emitter | — | Permitted | 37 km |
| East Irish Sea Transmission Project | Transmission line | — | Planned | 45 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.
- Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
- 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.