Power plant · Chorley, England, United Kingdom
Vause Farm - Battery Storage
Vause Farm - Battery Storage is a permitted battery storage plant in Chorley, England, United Kingdom, with 20 MW of capacity, operated by Sirius Renewable Energy.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Chorley (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | North Of Vause Farm Town Lane Charnock Richard, PR7 5HQ | 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 | 9 Feb 2024 (permit 22/00362/FULMAJ, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Chorley) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 30 Mar 2022 (reference 22/00362/FULMAJ, planning authority Chorley) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 9 Feb 2024 (granted, reference 22/00362/FULMAJ, planning authority Chorley) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Sirius Renewable Energy (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 (stand-alone storage) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.6153, -2.6856 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit granted (planning authority Chorley, reference 22/00362/FULMAJ)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Chorley, reference 22/00362/FULMAJ)
How it compares
Vause Farm - Battery Storage is the 974th-largest of 1,651 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,575th-largest of 2,549 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 20 MW is <0.1% of the 279,978 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 | 974th of 1,651 | 172,174 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,575th of 2,549 | 279,978 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 3,572nd of 5,782 | 643,557 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 395 grid connections (216 operating, 1,841 MW), 357 substations, 17 data centers, 3 gas storage facilities 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vause Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 20 MW | Planned | 0.3 km |
| Wrightington BSP | Substation | — | — | 0.3 km |
| Town Lane BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 30 MW | Planned | 0.4 km |
| Wrightington | Substation | — | — | 1.1 km |
| Charnock Richard grid connection | Grid connection | 25 MW | Planned | 1.4 km |
| Standish | Substation | — | — | 3.6 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 1551100328) | Data center | — | — | 16 km |
| Verizon Warrington | Data center | — | — | 22 km |
| Iron Mountain | Data center | — | — | 23 km |
Operator and place
Grid connections attached to this power plant
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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.
- 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.