Power plant · Stockport, England, United Kingdom
Welkin Mill, Welkin Road - Battery Storage
Welkin Mill, Welkin Road - Battery Storage is a power plant under construction in Stockport, England, United Kingdom, with 49.9 MW of capacity, operated by Noriker Power.
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 | Stockport (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Welkin Mill, Welkin Road, Bredbury, Stockport, SK6 2BH | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Under construction | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 1 Aug 2023 (permit DC/087394, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Stockport) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 9 Dec 2022 (reference DC/087394, planning authority Stockport) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 1 Aug 2023 (granted, reference DC/087394, planning authority Stockport) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Noriker Power | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 49.9 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 | 53.4180, -2.1335 | 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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Welkin Mill, Welkin Road - Battery Storage is the 514th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 886th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 49.9 MW is <0.1% of the 300,661 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 | 514th of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 886th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 1,966th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 453 substations, 391 grid connections (214 operating, 1,987 MW), 22 data centers and 3 gas storage facilities, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Welkin Mill grid connection | Grid connection | 35 MW | Operating | 0.1 km |
| Welkin Road grid connection | Grid connection | 21.1 MW | Planned | 0.1 km |
| Vernon Park BSP | Substation | — | — | 0.2 km |
| Bredbury GSP | Substation | — | — | 0.4 km |
| Portwood | Substation | — | — | 1.3 km |
| Vernon Park BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 75 MW | Planned | 1.4 km |
| CDL Strata Campus Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 3.2 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 703959498) | Data center | — | — | 6.3 km |
| Equinix MA4 | Data center | — | — | 8.4 km |
Operator and place
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- Littlebrook Battery Storage7.5 MW
- Albion Road5 MW
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- Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind Farm1,500 MW
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- Atlantic Array One - Bristol Channel Zone1,200 MW
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- Rugeley Power Plant Conversion1,000 MW
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Data on this page
- DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD). 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.
- Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects. 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.