Power plant · County Durham, England, United Kingdom
Spennymoor Greener Grid Park
Spennymoor Greener Grid Park is a permitted battery storage plant in County Durham, England, United Kingdom, with 200 MW of capacity, operated by Statkraft.
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 | County Durham (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | E/O Spennymoor, National Grid Station, Thinford Lane, Thinford, Durham, DH6 5LB | 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 | 14 Jul 2025 (permit DM/23/00745/FPA, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by County Durham) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 24 Mar 2023 (reference DM/23/00745/FPA, planning authority County Durham) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 14 Jul 2025 (granted, reference DM/23/00745/FPA, planning authority County Durham) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Statkraft (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 200 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 | 54.7096, -1.5354 | 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 granted (planning authority County Durham, reference DM/23/00745/FPA)
- Permit applied for (planning authority County Durham, reference DM/23/00745/FPA)
How it compares
Spennymoor Greener Grid Park is the 173rd-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 269th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 200 MW is <0.1% of the 279,068 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 | 173rd of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | 0.12% |
| United Kingdom | 269th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 745th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 283 grid connections (142 operating, 1,381 MW), 168 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solar 46.55 MW grid connection at Hett Moor Solar Direct | Grid connection | 46.6 MW | Planned | 1.1 km |
| Solar 1.7 MW grid connection at Spennymoor 66/20kV | Grid connection | 1.7 MW | Planned | 1.2 km |
| Battery storage 100 MW grid connection at The Tavern BESS Direct | Grid connection | 100 MW | Planned | 1.2 km |
| Spennymoor 132/66kV | Substation | — | — | 1.3 km |
| Spennymoor 66/20kV | Substation | — | — | 1.4 km |
| Spennymoor GSP | Substation | — | — | 1.4 km |
| DXC Wynyard Data Center | Data center | — | — | 17 km |
| Pulsant data center, England | Data center | — | — | 23 km |
| Lumen Technologies data center, Middlesbrough | Data center | — | — | 24 km |
Operator and place
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- Ratcliffe-on-Soar2,021 MW
- Cottam2,000 MW
- Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
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- Staythorpe1,828 MW
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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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- 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.
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