Power plant · Burnley, England, United Kingdom
Widow Hill, Balderstone Lane - Battery Energy Storage System
Widow Hill, Balderstone Lane - Battery Energy Storage System is a power plant under construction in Burnley, England, United Kingdom, with 70 MW of capacity, operated by P3P Partners LLP.
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 | Burnley (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Balderstone Lane, Burnley, BB10 2TJ | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Under construction | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 20 Jul 2023 (permit FUL/2021/0375, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Burnley) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 13 Jul 2021 (reference FUL/2021/0375, planning authority Burnley) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 20 Jul 2023 (granted, reference FUL/2021/0375, planning authority Burnley) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | P3P Partners LLP | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 70 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 | 53.8055, -2.2113 | 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.
Request researchLatest events
Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Construction started
- Permit granted (planning authority Burnley, reference FUL/2021/0375)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Burnley, reference FUL/2021/0375)
How it compares
Widow Hill, Balderstone Lane - Battery Energy Storage System is the 359th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 626th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 70 MW is <0.1% of the 300,461 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 | 359th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 626th of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 1,580th of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 506 substations, 464 grid connections (263 operating, 2,160 MW), 18 data centers and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OFF Balderstone RD grid connection | Grid connection | 49.9 MW | Planned | 0.2 km |
| Burnley | Substation | — | — | 0.5 km |
| Burnley BSP | Substation | — | — | 0.5 km |
| Sweetmore Anacrome grid connection | Grid connection | 6 MW | Operating | 0.5 km |
| Burnley PV grid connection | Grid connection | 45 MW | Planned | 0.5 km |
| Heasandford | Substation | — | — | 0.8 km |
| Lloyds Banking Group Copley | Data center | — | — | 24 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 403124345) | Data center | — | — | 24 km |
| Redcentric Elland Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 28 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.
- SP Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, 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.