Developer Apatura has protected a building permit for a 400 MW Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) to be built in Central Scotland.
The energy permission of the Scottish government, unity of the project, that 11.2 hectares of agriculture will include the village of Plean, five mil to the southeast of Stirling. The Denny project is the seventh for which Apurura has had permission for the past 12 months, so that the approved pipeline is brought to 1.4 GW.
The Scottish ministers concluded that the proposed new development “will support the resilience of the electricity network through the electricity that it stores and the additional technical services that it can offer to the operator of the electricity system.”
The Bess site will include the battery storage facility and associated infrastructure, as well as planting new indigenous species trees to improve biodiversity.
Andrew Philpott, Chief Development Officer at Apatura, said that the local Stirling Council has not submitted any objections to the project.
When it comes online, the 400 MW project will contribute to the goal of the Scottish government to generate 50% of the country’s energy consumption from renewable sources by offering the resilience of grid. Apatura said it worked closely with Stirling Council and the Energy Complex unit to get permission, and that the project will also create jobs in the area.
Earlier this month, Apatura broke the 1GW marking with permission granted for a 150 MW Bess who will be in Paisley, Renfrewshire, about 17 miles southwest of Glasgow. In September last year, the storage developer also won approval for the largest independent Bess in Scotland, a development of 700 MW in Inverclryde, Scotland.
