Renewable sites › Cleator
Cleator
Cleator is an operational 10 MW battery storage site in Cumberland, generating since 8 January 2018. REPD does not record the planning grant date. Operator of record: Low Carbon Storage Investment Company/ VLC.
Planning and build timeline
| Application submitted | not recorded |
| Permission granted | not recorded |
| Operational | 8 January 2018 |
Screening a site of your own?
Cumberland approves 100% of battery storage schemes. Redline puts that number, and everything else the record holds, against your own boundary: the authority’s actual approval rate and decision times, every designation inside the red line, agricultural grade, 1 m LIDAR earthworks, how contested the grid is, and yield with a P90 — before you spend on a consultant.
Arrives prefilled with Cleator’s recorded coordinate — swap in your own postcode or coordinates.
What this site sits on
The recorded coordinate falls on land surveyed as Grade 3 agricultural land. The published survey does not split Grade 3 into 3a and 3b, so this alone does not settle whether the land counts as best and most versatile.
REPD gives one representative coordinate per scheme, not the site boundary, so this describes the point on record rather than the whole site — a large site can straddle a designation edge. Boundaries come from planning.data.gov.uk, which publishes for England only.
Cumberland’s record on battery storage
Cumberland has decided 11 battery storage schemes and approved 100%, taking a median of 4.2 months. See every battery storage scheme decision in Cumberland →
Other built sites within 15 km
| Site | MW | Distance |
|---|---|---|
Wind Onshore · Operational | 6.5 | 8.4 km |
Wind Onshore · Operational | 4.7 | 10.8 km |
Wind Onshore · Operational | 6 | 11.2 km |
Landfill Gas · Operational | 1.8 | 11.3 km |
Landfill Gas · Operational | 1.9 | 11.9 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | 5 | 12.3 km |
Wind Onshore · Operational | 8.8 | 14.1 km |
How big is Cleator?
Cleator has a recorded installed capacity of 10 MW. That figure is the capacity registered in REPD, which is the scheme as consented — the metered output of a site can differ.
Who operates Cleator?
REPD records the operator as Low Carbon Storage Investment Company/ VLC. Ownership of built renewable assets changes hands regularly and REPD is published quarterly, so treat this as the operator of record rather than confirmation of who owns it today.
When was Cleator approved and built?
REPD does not record a submission date. REPD does not record a grant date. The site became operational on 8 January 2018.
Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0, plus planning designation boundaries from planning.data.gov.uk (England only). REPD is published quarterly and covers schemes of roughly 150 kW and above. Capacity is the installed capacity on record, not metered generation. Operator is the operator of record at the last extract, not confirmation of present ownership. Reference 7177.
Novarly Parcel · official public data, read properly · parcel.novarly.com
All sites · Screen your own site · Planning by council · Coal mining search by postcode