Storage power plant in England, United Kingdom. Approximate location 53.0329, -2.2433.
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Noriker Power Staunch is a 20 MW storage power plant in England, United Kingdom. It is operated by Hazel Capital/ Noriker Power. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 5,005 homes (estimated). It ranks #455 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 GBR2001164.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Hazel Capital/ Noriker Power.
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 53.0°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 36% 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: 72/100 — this site sits in the top 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 #14 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 53.0329, -2.2433 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
