Power plant · High Peak, England, United Kingdom
Waterswallows Road - Buxton Battery Storage Equipment
Waterswallows Road - Buxton Battery Storage Equipment is a power plant in High Peak, England, United Kingdom, with 15 MW of capacity, operated by Atlantic Green.
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 | High Peak (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | STOR Facility, Waterswallows Road, Green Fairfield, Buxton, SK17 7JB | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Operating (operational) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Start year | 2024 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 8 Apr 2022 (permit HPK/2022/0047, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by High Peak) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 11 Feb 2022 (reference HPK/2022/0047, planning authority High Peak) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 8 Apr 2022 (granted, reference HPK/2022/0047, planning authority High Peak) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Atlantic Green | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 15 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 | 53.2734, -1.8765 | 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.
Request researchLatest events
Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Commissioned
- Permit granted (planning authority High Peak, reference HPK/2022/0047)
- Permit applied for (planning authority High Peak, reference HPK/2022/0047)
How it compares
Waterswallows Road - Buxton Battery Storage Equipment is the 774th-largest of 3,430 power plants in England and the 1,388th-largest of 5,050 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 15 MW is <0.1% of the 115,622 MW we hold for the United Kingdom. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.
| Within | Rank | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 774th of 3,430 | 71,965 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,388th of 5,050 | 115,622 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants in our data | 5,118th of 12,032 | 1,190,447 MW | <0.1% |
Timeline
Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.
- Started operating
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 348 substations, 297 grid connections (165 operating, 1,590 MW), 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tunstead Stor 2 grid connection | Grid connection | 14 MW | Operating | 0.0 km |
| Tunstead Stor 1 grid connection | Grid connection | 16 MW | Operating | 0.1 km |
| Buxton 2 BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 20 MW | Planned | 0.2 km |
| Buxton BSP | Substation | — | — | 0.5 km |
| Waterswallows | Substation | — | — | 0.6 km |
| Ashwood Dale | Substation | — | — | 2.6 km |
| CDL Strata Campus Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 25 km |
| Datum Datacentres (MCR2) | Data center | — | — | 28 km |
| Delta House | Data center | — | — | 28 km |
Operator and place
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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.
- SP Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), CC BY 4.0.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages. Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages, Facts only, each linked to its page.
- © 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.