Power plant · East Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom
Upper Leigh - Battery Energy Storage System
Upper Leigh - Battery Energy Storage System is a planned battery storage plant in East Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, with 20 MW of capacity, operated by Lightrock Power.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | East Staffordshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Lower Tean Leys, Tean Leys, Lower Tean, ST10 4PA | 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 | 16 Jul 2025 (reference P/2025/00633, planning authority East Staffordshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Lightrock Power (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 20 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Battery (co-located with re) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 52.9251, -1.9953 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit applied for (planning authority East Staffordshire, reference P/2025/00633)
How it compares
Upper Leigh - Battery Energy Storage System is the 973rd-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,574th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 20 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 | 973rd of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,574th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 3,589th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 22 grid connections (13 operating, 125 MW), 18 substations, 3 data centers, 3 gas storage facilities 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internet Central data center, England | Data center | — | — | 20 km |
| Dane Moss Solar PV grid connection | Grid connection | 7.5 MW | Planned | 37 km |
| Danes Moss Landfill Site 2 grid connection | Grid connection | 2.1 MW | Operating | 37 km |
| Danes Moss Landfill Site 3 grid connection | Grid connection | 1.01 MW | Operating | 37 km |
| S.E. Macclesfield | Substation | — | — | 37 km |
| Ashwood Dale | Substation | — | — | 37 km |
| S.W. Macclesfield | Substation | — | — | 38 km |
| Chesterfield to Willington | Transmission line | — | Planned | 39 km |
| Salinae Hydrogen Storage project | Gas storage facility | — | Planned | 39 km |
Operator and place
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- Upper Leigh Solar Farm49.9 MW · permitted
- Crick Road49.9 MW · under construction
- Os Field 6800 Fence Dike Lane - Solar Farm49.9 MW · permitted
- Paytherden Solar Farm (Peradon)49 MW · under construction
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.
- 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.
- © 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.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.