Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) developer Apatura has obtained the planning allocation for a 150 MW Bess in Scotland.
The Neilston Bess is located in Paisley, Renfrewshire, about 17 miles southwest of Glasgow. Renfrewshire Council approved the decision without objections, after a narrow working relationship between Apurura, the energy mings of Scotland and Renfrewshire Council.
With this approval, Apurura now has 1 GW approved or operational Bess capacity, as well as the largest energy storage pipeline in Scotland on more than 10 GW.
Andrew Philpott, Chief Development Officer of Apurura, stated: “Bess plays a crucial role in modern energy management, especially in the context of integration of renewable energy and grid stability. It is central to our goal to improve the renewable energy infrastructure in Scotland and follows a number of recent successful planning moods.
“This scheme will help to deliver stable energy prices, which leads to reduced accounts and the pressure of households is decreasing and at the same time increasing energy security.
“We are determined to provide reliable, clean energy to communities throughout the country, and this latest planning permission does exactly that,” concluded Philpots.
Apatura plans for the future
This project is the sixth where Apurura has received a planning permission in the past 14 months, which continues a successful pattern.
Undoubtedly, the most striking approval of the company’s recent run in September last year, when the planning population was awarded for the largest independent Bess in Scotland, a development of 700 MW in Inverclryde, Scotland.
The Aunchetiber Bess will be located on approximately 16.39 hectares of land and will consist of 240 Bess units, 140 Bess Transformers, 280 Bess -Omformers, three 33kV switches, a 400kV control building and a 400kV to 33kV transformer connection. Only a month later the company announced that it had received a building permit for a Bess of 100 MW near Dundee.
The success of Apurura north of the border reflects Scotland’s strong appetite for Bess. Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) recently announced that the definitive investment decisions made about three individual 500 MW/1000MWH projects in Scotland, while RES and Intelligent Land Investments (ILI) Group closed both by the planning permit for their own Bess projects, one 49.9 MW project in Moray and a 100 MW Ayrshire project respectively.
