Power plant · East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Cockenzie Battery Storage System - Site A
Cockenzie Battery Storage System - Site A is a permitted power plant in East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 240 MW of capacity, operated by Gresham House.
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 | East Lothian (coordinates), Scotland | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | W/O Avenue Road, SE/O Edinburgh Road, S/O Ingis Farm, Cockenzie, EH32 0JT | 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 | 23 Jul 2025 (permit ECU00004926, Electricity Act 1989 section 36, issued by Scottish Government (S36)) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 30 Aug 2023 (reference ECU00004926, planning authority Scottish Government (S36)) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 23 Jul 2025 (granted, reference ECU00004926, planning authority Scottish Government (S36)) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Gresham House | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 240 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 | 55.9689, -2.9591 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Cockenzie Battery Storage System - Site A is the 74th-largest of 872 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Scotland and the 257th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 240 MW is <0.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 74th of 872 | 99,272 MW | 0.24% |
| United Kingdom | 257th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 644th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 18 grid connections (6 operating, 87 MW), 9 data centers and 5 substations, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RBS Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 4.5 km |
| RBS Melville Gate Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
| Data center, Scotland (OSM way 1548060501) | Data center | — | — | 19 km |
| Binn Farm Glenfarg grid connection | Grid connection | 30 MW | Planned | 40 km |
| Milnathort Primary | Substation | — | — | 41 km |
| Binn Farm Wind Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 6.7 MW | Operating | 44 km |
| Binn Farm - Wind grid connection | Grid connection | 9.9 MW | Planned | 44 km |
| Abernethy GSP | Substation | — | — | 46 km |
| Abernethy Primary | Substation | — | — | 46 km |
Operator and place
More from Gresham House
- Cockenzie Battery Storage System - Site B102 MW · permitted
- Harburnhead Wind Farm51.7 MW
- Glassenbury - Battery Storage System50 MW · permitted
- West Didsbury Battery Storage50 MW
- Enderby Storage, Redcomb Farm49.9 MW
- Low Farm Solar Farm49.9 MW · under construction
- Pleasance Road - Battery Energy Facility49.9 MW
- Siddington Solar Farm19.9 MW · under construction
Other power plants in Scotland
- Seagreen1,075 MW
- Moray East950 MW
- Moray West Offshore Wind Farm Project882 MW
- Lewis Wind Farm (Barvas Moor)652 MW
- Beatrice588 MW
- Neart na Gaoithe450 MW
- Viking Wind Farm443 MW
- Cruachan440 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.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- 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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.