Power plant · North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
White Rose Carbon Capture and Storage Project
White Rose Carbon Capture and Storage Project is a power plant in North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, with 448 MW of capacity, operated by Capture 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 | North Yorkshire (coordinates), England (Yorkshire and the Humber) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Drax Power Station, Selby, North Yorkshire | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Unknown (post-decision, decided) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 24 Nov 2014 (reference EN010048, planning authority The Planning Inspectorate) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 13 Apr 2016 (decided, reference EN010048, planning authority The Planning Inspectorate) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Capture Power Limited (applicant) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 448 MW (description) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Carbon capture | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Area | 198 ha (application boundary) | planning.data.gov.uk · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.7468, -0.9942 | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · 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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White Rose Carbon Capture and Storage Project is the 24th-largest of 3,430 power plants in England and the 32nd-largest of 5,050 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 448 MW is 0.39% of the 115,642 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 | 24th of 3,430 | 71,985 MW | 0.62% |
| United Kingdom | 32nd of 5,050 | 115,642 MW | 0.39% |
| All power plants in our data | 900th of 12,008 | 1,173,302 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 462 grid connections (230 operating, 2,696 MW), 324 substations, 6 data centers and 3 transmission lines, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solar 49.99 MW grid connection at Barlow Solar Direct | Grid connection | 50 MW | Planned | 1.5 km |
| Drax | Substation | — | — | 1.6 km |
| Wind 35 MW grid connection at Goole Fields 2 Windfarm | Grid connection | 35 MW | Operating | 1.9 km |
| Drax Primary | Substation | — | — | 2.0 km |
| Camblesforth | Substation | — | — | 2.0 km |
| Battery storage 99.9 MW grid connection at Church Dike Lane BESS Direct | Grid connection | 99.9 MW | Planned | 2.2 km |
| Yorkshire GREEN | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 25 km |
| HSBC Wakefield Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 26 km |
| nLighten Leeds | Data center | — | — | 27 km |
Operator and place
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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.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- planning.data.gov.uk. planning.data.gov.uk, 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.