Power plant · Redditch, England, United Kingdom
Wheaten Hill Farm - BESS
Wheaten Hill Farm - BESS is a planned power plant in Redditch, England, United Kingdom, with 400 MW of capacity, operated by Boom Power Limited.
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 | Redditch (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Wheaten Hill Farm, Salt Way, Feckenham, Redditch, B96 6HH | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned (planning application submitted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 6 Aug 2025 (reference 25/00888/FUL, planning authority Redditch) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Boom Power Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 400 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 | 52.2550, -1.9504 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Wheaten Hill Farm - BESS is the 103rd-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 157th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 400 MW is 0.13% 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 | 103rd of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | 0.21% |
| United Kingdom | 157th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | 0.13% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 351st of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 291 grid connections, 5 substations and 4 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bess grid connection | Grid connection | — | — | 2.0 km |
| Woolaston RD Generation Redditch grid connection | Grid connection | — | — | 4.7 km |
| Redditch Gas Generation grid connection | Grid connection | — | — | 4.8 km |
| Evoque Data Center Solutions | Data center | — | — | 7.8 km |
| Ionos data center, England | Data center | — | — | 15 km |
| EE Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 31 km |
| Shipton Oliffe Primary | Substation | — | — | 43 km |
| Chipping Norton Primary | Substation | — | — | 45 km |
| Bledington Primary | Substation | — | — | 45 km |
Operator and place
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- Smithy Lane, Staining - Solar PV Panels & BESS40 MW · planned
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- Crays Hall Farm - Solar Arrays25.6 MW
Other power plants in England
- Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
- Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind Farm1,500 MW
- Hornsea 2 - Optimus and Breesea1,320 MW
- Hornsea 1 - Heron & Njord1,218 MW
- Atlantic Array One - Bristol Channel Zone1,200 MW
- Five Estuaries - Wind Farm1,080 MW
- Rugeley Power Plant Conversion1,000 MW
- Teesworks Battery Storage Project1,000 MW
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.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- NGED Connected Data portal. NGED Connected Data portal, Terms not verified.
- © 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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.