Power plant · Somerset, England, United Kingdom
Showground Road, Bridgwater Energy Recovery Facility
Showground Road, Bridgwater Energy Recovery Facility is a planned power plant in Somerset, England, United Kingdom, with 7.75 MW of capacity, operated by Bridgwater Resource Recovery.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Somerset (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Land at Showground Road, TA6 6AJ | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned (planning application submitted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 27 Oct 2020 (reference SCC/3761/2020, planning authority Somerset) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Bridgwater Resource Recovery | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 7.75 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | EfW Incineration | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.1110, -2.9849 | 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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- Permit applied for (planning authority Somerset, reference SCC/3761/2020)
How it compares
Showground Road, Bridgwater Energy Recovery Facility is the 1,543rd-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,387th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 7.75 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 | 1,543rd of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,387th of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,493rd of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 42 grid connections (26 operating, 199 MW), 23 substations, 6 data centers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tata Communications Highbridge Datacentre | Data center | — | — | 13 km |
| Fleet Air Arm Museum grid connection | Grid connection | 4.01 MW | Operating | 26 km |
| Hinkley Point C Connection Project Material Change | Transmission line | — | Planned | 27 km |
| Insight Data Ltd | Data center | — | — | 28 km |
| Southfield Farm Solar Park grid connection | Grid connection | 7.6 MW | Operating | 28 km |
| Hinkley Point C Connection | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 29 km |
| Larkhill Primary | Substation | — | — | 29 km |
| Chiltern Cantello grid connection | Grid connection | 4.75 MW | Operating | 29 km |
| Chilton Cantello Primary | Substation | — | — | 30 km |
Operator and place
More from Bridgwater Resource Recovery
- Showground Road7.8 MW · under construction
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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.
- 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.