Power plant · Stockport, England, United Kingdom

Welkin Road, Bredbury - Battery Storage System

Welkin Road, Bredbury - Battery Storage System is a battery storage plant in Stockport, England, United Kingdom, with 20 MW of capacity, operated by Arlington Energy.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Stockport (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Welkin Road, SK6 2BH	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	2026	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	25 Jan 2021 (permit DC/078965, 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	22 Dec 2020 (reference DC/078965, planning authority Stockport)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	25 Jan 2021 (granted, reference DC/078965, planning authority Stockport)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Arlington Energy	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	53.4168, -2.1331	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Latest events

Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.

5 Jan 2026Commissioned
25 Jan 2021Permit granted (planning authority Stockport, reference DC/078965)
22 Dec 2020Permit applied for (planning authority Stockport, reference DC/078965)

How it compares

Welkin Road, Bredbury - Battery Storage System is the 355th-largest of 2,105 power plants in England and the 589th-largest of 2,942 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 20 MW is <0.1% of the 105,383 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	355th of 2,105	72,593 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	589th of 2,942	105,383 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	5,459th of 12,230	1,691,896 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.

2026Started operating

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 Road grid connection	Grid connection	21.1 MW	Planned	0.0 km
Vernon Park BSP	Substation	—	—	0.1 km
Welkin Mill grid connection	Grid connection	35 MW	Operating	0.2 km
Bredbury GSP	Substation	—	—	0.3 km
Portwood	Substation	—	—	1.3 km
Vernon Park BESS grid connection	Grid connection	75 MW	Planned	1.5 km
CDL Strata Campus Data Centre	Data center	—	—	3.2 km
Data center, England (OSM way 703959498)	Data center	—	—	6.4 km
Equinix MA4	Data center	—	—	8.5 km

Operator and place

Grid connections attached to this power plant

Welkin Road grid connection21.1 MW

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