Land at Carnegie Road

Land at Carnegie Road is a 20 MW storage power plant in England, United Kingdom. It is operated by Ørsted. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 5,005 homes (estimated). It ranks #451 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 GBR2001175.

Capacity vs largest storage plants in United Kingdom

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Ørsted. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

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 53.4°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 22% 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: 62/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #11 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.

Nearby power plants

• Port of Liverpool · Wind · 10 MW · England
• Bromborough Dock Landfill Scheme · Waste · 3 MW · England
• Burbo Bank Energy Storage · Storage · 2 MW · England
• Bromborough Dock · Waste · 4 MW · England
• Seaforth · Wind · 3 MW · England
• Bidston Moss Landfill Scheme · Waste · 2 MW · England

Location

Coordinates 53.4199, -2.9276 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.