Power plant · West Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Witney Bypass, Stanton Harcourt Road - Battery Storage
Witney Bypass, Stanton Harcourt Road - Battery Storage is a planned power plant in West Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, with 150 MW of capacity, operated by Voltwise Power Holdings Limited.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | West Oxfordshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | South Of The A40, Witney Bypass Stanton Harcourt Road, OX29 7UJ | 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 | 25 Jul 2025 (reference 25/01656/FUL, planning authority West Oxfordshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Voltwise Power Holdings Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 150 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 | 51.7680, -1.4801 | 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 applied for (planning authority West Oxfordshire, reference 25/01656/FUL)
How it compares
Witney Bypass, Stanton Harcourt Road - Battery Storage is the 219th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 349th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 150 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 | 219th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 349th of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 998th of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 160 grid connections (82 operating, 957 MW), 128 substations and 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Witney Bypass - 150MW BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 160 MW | Planned | 0.2 km |
| Witney BSP | Substation | — | — | 0.6 km |
| Witney Town Primary | Substation | — | — | 1.8 km |
| Ducklington Solar grid connection | Grid connection | 18 MW | Planned | 2.0 km |
| BF13A Tar Farm Cottage grid connection | Grid connection | 33 MW | Planned | 2.9 km |
| Windrush Park Primary | Substation | — | — | 3.2 km |
| University Shared Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 16 km |
| AWS Didcot Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 23 km |
| R89 | Data center | — | — | 24 km |
Operator and place
Grid connections attached to this power plant
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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.
- 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.
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- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.
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