Power plant · Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Connah’s Quay Low Carbon Power Project
Connah’s Quay Low Carbon Power Project is a planned gas power plant in Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom, with 1,380 MW of capacity, operated by Uniper UK.
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 | Flintshire (coordinates), Wales (Wales) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Land at Connah's Quay Power Station, Kelsterton Road, Deeside, CH5 4BP | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned (decision) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 5 Aug 2025 (reference EN010166, planning authority The Planning Inspectorate) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Uniper UK (applicant) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 1,380 MW (description) | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Gas | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Carbon capture | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Area | 105 ha (application boundary) | planning.data.gov.uk · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.2362, -3.0949 | Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit applied for (planning authority The Planning Inspectorate, reference EN010166) · source
How it compares
Connah’s Quay Low Carbon Power Project is the 3rd-largest of 157 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Wales and the 38th-largest of 2,549 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1,380 MW is 0.49% of the 279,978 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wales | 3rd of 157 | 16,088 MW | 8.6% |
| United Kingdom | 38th of 2,549 | 279,978 MW | 0.49% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 53rd of 5,782 | 643,557 MW | 0.21% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 52 grid connections (33 operating, 257 MW), 34 substations, 6 data centers, 3 gas storage facilities and 2 transmission lines, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nLighten Chester | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
| nLighten Edge Data Centre Liverpool | Data center | — | — | 14 km |
| The Babbage Centre | Data center | — | — | 26 km |
| North Wales Wind Farms Connection | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 30 km |
| Bold GSP | Substation | — | — | 35 km |
| Bickerstaffe WTW grid connection | Grid connection | 1.25 MW | Operating | 36 km |
| Unit 1 Junction Lane grid connection | Grid connection | 5.26 MW | Planned | 38 km |
| Billinge Hill Quarry Landfill grid connection | Grid connection | 1.03 MW | Operating | 38 km |
| Ormskirk | Substation | — | — | 39 km |
Operator and place
More from Uniper UK
- Ratcliffe-on-Soar2,021 MW
- Grain1,404 MW
- Connahs Quay1,380 MW
- Killingholme619 MW
- Cottam Development Centre445 MW
- Enfield408 MW
- Taylors Lane144 MW
- Killingholme Power Station, Chase Hill Road - Hydrogen Production Facility120 MW · permitted
Other power plants in Wales
- Pembroke2,325 MW
- Dinorwig1,728 MW
- Aberthaw B1,559 MW
- Connahs Quay1,380 MW
- Severn Power Ltd850 MW
- Gwynt y Mor576 MW
- Deeside498 MW
- Ffestiniog360 MW
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.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. planning.data.gov.uk, 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.