Power plant · Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Land off Shilton Lane Battery Storage

Land off Shilton Lane Battery Storage is a cancelled battery storage plant in Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 19 MW of capacity, operated by Flexible Grid Power.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Renfrewshire (coordinates), Scotland	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Land Bet Shilton Cottage & M89, Shilton Lane, Bishopton, Strathclyde, PA7 5PR	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Cancelled (abandoned)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	21 Aug 2017 (reference 17/0592/PP, planning authority Renfrewshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Flexible Grid Power (applicant)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	19 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	55.9140, -4.4734	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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21 Aug 2017Permit applied for (planning authority Renfrewshire, reference 17/0592/PP)

How it compares

Land off Shilton Lane is the 547th-largest of 1,340 power plants in Scotland and the 1,624th-largest of 5,834 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 19 MW is <0.1% of the 200,500 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
Scotland	547th of 1,340	46,467 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	1,624th of 5,834	200,500 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	7,056th of 15,800	1,923,633 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 27 substations, 18 grid connections (11 operating, 231 MW) and 5 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
Strathleven GSP	Substation	—	—	7.6 km
Auchencarroch Energy Ltd grid connection	Grid connection	3.04 MW	Operating	11 km
Auchincarroch (GEN464G2) grid connection	Grid connection	1.01 MW	Operating	11 km
iomart Glasgow Data Centre	Data center	—	—	14 km
Verizon Glasgow GLSGGB	Data center	—	—	14 km
Blairlinnans Primary	Substation	—	—	14 km
DataVita DV2	Data center	—	—	14 km
Killearn Primary	Substation	—	—	16 km
Ross Priory Hydro grid connection	Grid connection	4 MW	Planned	16 km

Operator and place

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