Power plant · North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Wormald Green - Battery Energy Storage System

Wormald Green - Battery Energy Storage System is a power plant in North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, with 33 MW of capacity, operated by Harmony Energy Limited.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	North Yorkshire (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Station Lane Burton Leonard, HG3 3RX	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating (operational)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	2024	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	14 Jun 2022 (permit 22/00777/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by North Yorkshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	17 Mar 2022 (reference 22/00777/FUL, planning authority North Yorkshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	26 Sept 2022 (refused, reference 22/00777/FUL, planning authority North Yorkshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	14 Jun 2022 (granted, reference 22/00777/FUL, planning authority North Yorkshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Harmony Energy Limited	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	33 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	54.0761, -1.5201	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Latest events

Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.

11 Sept 2024Commissioned
26 Sept 2022Permit refused (planning authority North Yorkshire, reference 22/00777/FUL)
14 Jun 2022Permit granted (planning authority North Yorkshire, reference 22/00777/FUL)
17 Mar 2022Permit applied for (planning authority North Yorkshire, reference 22/00777/FUL)

How it compares

Wormald Green - Battery Energy Storage System is the 364th-largest of 3,430 power plants in England and the 687th-largest of 5,050 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 33 MW is <0.1% of the 115,622 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	364th of 3,430	71,965 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	687th of 5,050	115,622 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	2,641st of 12,032	1,190,447 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.

2024Started operating

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 255 grid connections (127 operating, 1,287 MW), 238 substations, 7 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
Wormald Green 132/11kV Direct	Substation	—	—	0.2 km
Wormald Green 132/33kV	Substation	—	—	0.2 km
Battery storage and Solar 16 MW grid connection at Wormald Green 132/11kV Direct	Grid connection	16 MW	Planned	0.4 km
Solar 24 MW grid connection at Fawcett PV	Grid connection	24 MW	Planned	1.0 km
Battery storage and Solar 75.5 MW grid connection at Leyton Hybrid	Grid connection	75.5 MW	Operating	1.7 km
Knaresborough	Substation	—	—	5.4 km
VocaLink	Data center	—	—	12 km
Yorkshire GREEN	Transmission line	—	Permitted	25 km
GridJet	Data center	—	—	33 km

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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.
JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), CC BY 4.0.
Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages. Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages, Facts only, each linked to its page.
Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
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.