The UK Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) sector has received a boost, since developers Statera Energy and Intelligent Land Investments (ILI) Group have protected critical planning rights.
Statera Energy has permission from the planning for a Bess project of 500 MW in Oxfordshire. The Culham Storage Development will be located near the Culham campus of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), where research into new nuclear energy technologies is being carried out. The project is also near the Culham substation of National Grid, which reduces the need for new transmission infrastructure.
The site will yield a net profit from 62% biodiversity to the area, in which 16 hectares of land are reserved for the development of new habitats of forest and grassland, including the repair of a registered park and garden.
Oliver Troup, ontwikkelingsleider bij Statera Energy, verklaarde dat het project ‘een belangrijke rol’ zal spelen bij het helpen van het VK om zijn Clean Power 2030 -doelstelling te bereiken, eraan toevoegend dat de ‘strategische plaatsing en belangrijke capaciteit van de ontwikkeling’ de operators van het project in staat zal stellen ‘de intermitterende aard van hernieuwbare energie te beheren, de lokale gridstabiliteit en nationale energie -veiligheid en nationale energie -Protection will be able to manage.
He concluded: “We will continue to work closely with our partners at Ukaea and National Grid Electricity Transmission to deliver this essential project in a responsible and effective way”.
Statera currently has more than 2.1 GW of projects operational or in construction, as well as a 16GW pipeline of projects in development or permission. Among this is the 680 MW Carrington Storage project, located near Manchester, that Statera bought from Carlton Power at the beginning of this year.
Ili Group Nets Planning permission for North Lanarkshire Bess
In the meantime, ILI Group has announced that the 36 planning permission section has been given for its North Lanrigg Bess proposal, a 200 MW project in Scotland.
The Energy Constent Unit (ECU) has approved the project, which will be developed in North Lanarkshire. ILI Group has not yet revealed when it expects to start the construction of the project, but it notes that it has obtained a grid connection offer before 2028.
CEO of ILI Group Mark Wilson called the North Lanrigg project “an important milestone” for the company and noted that the project is important “not only because of its scale, but because it reflects the strength of our development model and the demand for flexible raster infrastructure”. He added: “These are the kind of national important assets that will support a fully renewable energy system.”
This year ILI Group successfully obtained the planning approval for 300 MW Bess capacity. In May the company was Permission for the Learielaw Bess project, A 100 MW/350MWH, 3.5 hours of Bess in West Lothian, Scotland.
The company also ended 2024 on a strong memorandum, which means that the building permit for its countries 100 MW Flemyland Bess, To be based in North Ayrshire, Scotland, in December, after he has also received the planning state The 200mw Whitehill development Near Gartcosh at the end of October and the 50 MW Lochluichart project in the Scottish Highlands in November.
