Storage power plant in England, United Kingdom. Approximate location 53.7983, -0.421.
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Creyke Beck is a 50 MW storage power plant in England, United Kingdom. It is operated by Statera Energy. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 12,489 homes (estimated). It ranks #186 of 2,751 United Kingdom power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, the national grid averages 217 gCO₂/kWh (64.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GBR2001173.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Statera Energy.
This storage plant stores and releases electricity (pumped-hydro or batteries) to balance the grid. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 53.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 23% above the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.
Climate heat-demand index: 63/100 — this site sits in the mid third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.
Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.
The #2 largest storage power plant of 31 in United Kingdom by capacity.
United Kingdom has 31 storage power plants in this dataset, together about 897 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 53.7983, -0.421 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
