Scottish ministers in the Energy Complex unit have approved an application of energy storage developer Alcemi for a 300 MW Battery Energy Storage System (Bess) in Aberdenshire, Scotland.
The transmission-bound Kintore Bess is located on a brownfield site of 5.7 hectares on the edge of the existing Midmill Business Park, 1.5 km south of Kintore and 2.8 km east of the Kintore substation.
After approval, Alcemi has a pipeline of 1,800 MW battery storage with building permit in Scotland. UK-wide, Alcemi has agreed a total of 2.3 GW of schemes. Alcemi has a connection date of October 2029 for the Kintore Bess.
As with the rest of his projects under construction, Kintore Bess from Alcemi will be demanded in collaboration with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) through his flagship funds.
CIP and Alcemi worked together in February 2022 with the aim of using 4GW of energy storage in the United Kingdom.
At the start of the year, CIP provided financial investment decisions (FIDs) and issued a notification to continue construction for Alcemi’s 500 MW/1000MWH Coalburn 2 Bess in South Lanarkshire, adjacent to the existing Coalburn 1 Bess of the same size in Fife.
Alcemi provided permission for the Bess projects the year earlier. Chief Development Director of Alcemi James Forster said that the company was ‘excited’ to retain its 100% track record of permission.
Scotland is a competitive area for Bess development due to the large quantities of wind generation in the country that cannot be exported across the border to England because of the insufficient transmission network.
Permission for the Kintore project came within a few weeks after the Energy Constent Unit (ECU) who agreed to two other Grid-Scale Bess for Scotland. The first of the two, in development by Apatura, has a capacity of 50 MW/100MWH and is the ninth permission that the company has protected in 16 months.
Poet in size at Kintore, Zenobē Energy received approval for a 200 MW Bess that must connect in June 2026.
