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Transmission / Projects / England and Wales

Spennymoor Greener Grid Park

Spennymoor Grid Solutions Limited at Spennymoor 400kV Substation

Connection date
30 Oct 2035
Gate
Not stated
Status
Scoping
Technology
Storage + Reactive compensation
Total capacity
500 MW
Connected now
0 MW
Still to connect
500 MW
Transmission owner
National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET)
Agreement type
Direct Connection
Region
England and Wales
Project number
PRO-002041
In the register since
September 2022

What would CMP470’s commitment fee do to a battery like this? See the use case: Will CMP470’s commitment fee clear the battery queue?

Stages

StageConnected MWAdds MWCumulative MWDateGateStatus
100029 Oct 2027Not statedAwaiting Consents
2050050030 Oct 2035Not statedScoping

Change history

Every change to this project across 151 registers from 29 Jan 2021 to 5 Nov 2026.

  • 10 Jul 2026 register
    Customer changed from Statkraft UK Ltd to Spennymoor Grid Solutions Limited
  • 29 Apr 2025 register
    Stage 1: Status changed from Scoping to Awaiting Consents
  • 26 Nov 2024 register
    Stage 2: Connection date moved from 31 Oct 2033 to 30 Oct 2035 (+24 months)
  • 30 Jan 2024 register
    Restructured from 1 stage (0 MW from 30 Oct 2026) to 2 stages (0 MW from 29 Oct 2027, 500 MW from 31 Oct 2033)
  • 23 Dec 2022 register
    Substation name updated in the register (from Spennymoor 400kV to Spennymoor 400kV Substation)
  • 30 Sep 2022 register
    Added to the register

Also at Spennymoor 400kV Substation

Substation view

3 other projects, 850 MW still to connect at this substation in total. 99.8 MW is due to connect here before this project’s connection date of 30 Oct 2035.

Status definitions (NESO)

Scoping: NESO is not aware that a planning application has been made.

Awaiting Consents: NESO is aware, or the customer has told it, that a planning application has been made.

Consents Approved: NESO is aware, or the customer has told it, that the planning application has been approved.

Terminated: used by NESO only in its register of 30 April 2021, for two projects that left the register the next month.

These statuses are NESO’s, not QueueWatch’s, and NESO describes them as “as far as we are aware”, so a project may be further along than its status shows.

Source: NESO