Power plant · South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Westerleigh Hill, Westerleigh - Battery Energy Storage Facility
Westerleigh Hill, Westerleigh - Battery Energy Storage Facility is a permitted battery storage plant in South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, with 200 MW of capacity, operated by Immersa.
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 | South Gloucestershire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Land Off Westerleigh Hill Westerleigh, BS37 8RD | 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 | 19 Jul 2024 (permit P23/01180/F, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by South Gloucestershire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 29 Mar 2023 (reference P23/01180/F, planning authority South Gloucestershire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 19 Jul 2024 (granted, reference P23/01180/F, planning authority South Gloucestershire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Immersa (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 200 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 | 51.5056, -2.4403 | 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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- Permit granted (planning authority South Gloucestershire, reference P23/01180/F)
- Permit applied for (planning authority South Gloucestershire, reference P23/01180/F)
How it compares
Westerleigh Hill, Westerleigh - Battery Energy Storage Facility is the 174th-largest of 1,651 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 270th-largest of 2,549 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 200 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 | 174th of 1,651 | 172,174 MW | 0.12% |
| United Kingdom | 270th of 2,549 | 279,978 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 732nd of 5,782 | 643,557 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 126 grid connections (81 operating, 949 MW), 61 substations, 13 data centers, 2 transmission lines and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Bristol Isambard-AI | AI supercomputer | 5,448 H100e | Operating | 2.6 km |
| nLighten Bristol | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
| Castle Combe PV grid connection | Grid connection | 11.4 MW | Operating | 15 km |
| Alderton Primary | Substation | — | — | 16 km |
| Spring Quarry West Primary | Substation | — | — | 18 km |
| Yatton Keynell Primary | Substation | — | — | 18 km |
| Ark Data Centres | Data center | — | — | 18 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 996865179) | Data center | — | — | 18 km |
| Solar 7 MW grid connection at Spring Quarry West | Grid connection | 7 MW | Operating | 18 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.
- Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, 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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.