Power plant · Newark and Sherwood, England, United Kingdom
Staythorpe Road, Averham - Battery Storage
Staythorpe Road, Averham - Battery Storage is a planned battery storage plant in Newark and Sherwood, England, United Kingdom, with 300 MW of capacity, operated by SSE Battery Storage Limited.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Newark and Sherwood (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Staythorpe Road Averham, NG23 5RA | 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 | 7 Mar 2023 (reference 23/00317/FULM, planning authority Newark and Sherwood) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | SSE Battery Storage Limited (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 300 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 | 53.0820, -0.8596 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit applied for (planning authority Newark and Sherwood, reference 23/00317/FULM)
How it compares
Staythorpe Road, Averham - Battery Storage is the 140th-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 212th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 300 MW is 0.11% 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 | 140th of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | 0.18% |
| United Kingdom | 212th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | 0.11% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 488th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 46 grid connections (20 operating, 200 MW), 33 substations, 4 data centers and 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Space DC - Newark | Data center | — | — | 4.5 km |
| Hall Water Treatment Works grid connection | Grid connection | 1.6 MW | Operating | 21 km |
| Newton on Trent Water Works grid connection | Grid connection | 3.1 MW | Operating | 22 km |
| nLighten Nottingham | Data center | — | — | 25 km |
| Stow | Substation | — | — | 29 km |
| Stow Park Road grid connection | Grid connection | 1.19 MW | Operating | 29 km |
| Experian | Data center | — | — | 30 km |
| Weston Marsh to East Leicestershire | Transmission line | — | Planned | 33 km |
| Lea Road | Substation | — | — | 35 km |
Operator and place
Other power plants in England
- Drax Power Station Biomass Units2,580 MW
- Ratcliffe-on-Soar2,021 MW
- Cottam2,000 MW
- Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
- West Burton2,000 MW
- Eggborough1,960 MW
- Staythorpe1,828 MW
- Fiddler’s Ferry1,510 MW
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.
- 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.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.
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