Specialist of energy storage Apurura has successfully protected the building permit for a new 100 MW Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in North Ayrshire, Scotland.
The Kilwinning Bess is half a kilometer northeast of the city of Kilwinning on an eight-hectare site and marks the tenth BESS project for which the company has received permission from the planning in the last 17 months. With this development, Apatura now has a permission Bess portfolio of more than 1.6 GW.
The planning application was granted with zero public objections submitted during the application process. The energy permission of the Scottish government praised the future development and stated that it will “support the resilience of the electricity network through the electricity it generates and the extra technical services it can offer to the operator of the electricity system”, adding that the project will offer “essential flexibility for the network”. The developer has not yet stated when he expects the construction to start, or when the project will be connected to the grid.
On the news, Andrew Philpott, Chief Development Officer at Apurura, said that Bess developments are ‘integral’ to enable Scotland and the UK to achieve their net goals, adding: “It is encouraging to get projects such as kilwinning approval at such a fast pace.”
The Scottish portfolio of Apurura strengthens
Much of the Bess portfolio from Apurura is located in Scotland, including various recently established projects. At the end of last month, the Energy Constent unit granted a building permit for a 50 MW/100MWH Apatura Bess near Oost -Kilbride, in the South Lanarkshire region in Scotland. Only a few weeks earlier, Apurura celebrated the approval of a 40 MW/80MWH Bess in Eaglesham, East Renfrewshire, which is expected to create up to 25 full -time jobs during the construction period.
Apurura started this year on a very strong note, with the planning approval of its 150 MW Neilston Bess in Renfrewshire, so that the developer could exceed the substantial milestone of having 1GW of permission or operational Bess capacity. The company also has the largest pipeline in Scotland in more than 10 GW. Shortly thereafter, Apatura received the planning allocation to develop the Denny Bess project, a 400 MW Bess project near Stirling, in Central Scotland.
The most ambitious permission of the company, however, is undoubtedly the Aunchetiber Bess, a 700 MW development that is in Inverclryde, which will be completed once, will be the biggest independent Bess in Scotland.
