Lakeside Energy Park
Lakeside Energy Park is a power station in Drax, Selby District, England. Lakeside Energy Park is situated nearby to the public building Drax Sports and Social Club, as well as near Drax Cemetery.- Type: Power station
- Description: 100 MW battery storage power plant in North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Lakeside BESS”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Drax Power Station and St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Drax.
Drax Power Station
Power station
Photo: David Wright, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Drax power station is a large biomass power station in Drax, North Yorkshire, England. It has a 2.6 GW capacity for biomass and had a 1.29 GW capacity for coal that was retired in 2021. Drax Power Station is situated 3,000 feet northwest of Lakeside Energy Park.
St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Drax
Church
Photo: Chemical Engineer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Peter and St Paul's Church is the parish church of Drax, North Yorkshire, a village in England. The church was founded during the reign of Henry I of England by William Paynel, who also founded Drax Priory. St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Drax is situated 2,900 feet southeast of Lakeside Energy Park.
Read School
School
Read School, Drax is a boarding, day, and independent school, based in the rural village of Drax, near Selby, North Yorkshire, England. Formerly a boys' school, it became co-educational in 1991. Read School is situated 3,100 feet east of Lakeside Energy Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Long Drax and Snaith.
Long Drax
Hamlet
Photo: Glyn Drury, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Long Drax is a small hamlet and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England, about 2 miles north-east of Drax. In 2011 it had a population of 125.
Snaith
Town
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Snaith is a market town in the civil parish of Snaith and Cowick in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Snaith is administered by the East Riding of Yorkshire unitary authority and, since the 2024 general election, forms part of the Goole and Pocklington constituency. Snaith is situated 3½ miles southwest of Lakeside Energy Park.
West Cowick
Village
Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
West Cowick is a village located in the civil parish of Snaith and Cowick in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies in low-lying farmland within the Humberhead Levels. West Cowick is situated 3½ miles south of Lakeside Energy Park.
Lakeside Energy Park
- Categories: battery storage power station and industry
- Location: Drax, Selby District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.73266° or 53° 43′ 58″ northLongitude
-0.98907° or 0° 59′ 21″ westOpen location code
9C5XP2M6+39OpenStreetMap ID
way 1364038290OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrialWikidata ID
Q132861154
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