Power plant · East Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Wicken Bridleway, Church Road - Battery Energy Storage
Wicken Bridleway, Church Road - Battery Energy Storage is a permitted power plant in East Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, with 400 MW of capacity, operated by Green Switch Capital Limited.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | East Cambridgeshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Field Btw Wicken Bridleway 38 And Soham Bridleway, 126 Church Road, Wicken, Ely, CB7 4EL | 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 | 8 Apr 2026 (permit 25/00303/FUM, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by East Cambridgeshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 25 Mar 2025 (ref. 25/00303/FUM, East Cambridgeshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 8 Apr 2026 (granted, ref. 25/00303/FUM, East Cambridgeshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Green Switch Capital 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 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 52.4000, 0.2657 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Wicken Bridleway, Church Road - Battery Energy Storage 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: 13 grid connections, 1 data center and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 5, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longmarsh Green Energy | Data center | — | Planned | 34 km |
| Kings Lynn B Connection Project | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 37 km |
| Crowland, French Farm Wind Farm grid connection | Grid connection | — | — | 38 km |
| The Grange Wind Farm grid connection | Grid connection | — | — | 39 km |
| FEN Dyke Farm grid connection | Grid connection | — | — | 40 km |
Operator and place
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- 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.
- 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.