Enzygo has announced that it successfully protected the building permit for a 200 MW Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) on behalf of Energi Generation.
The building permit was granted by Lancaster City Council for the Heysham Bess project, based in Heysham, Lancashire. The application was submitted in August last year by Enzygo, a well -known planning consultancy firm, on behalf of developer Energi Generation.
Enzygo collaborated with the Lancaster city council and was able to secure a planning condition of 5 years instead of the standard 3 -year implementation planning state, while he also received no objection from Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service. Once completed, the development will provide significant benefits for biodiversity for the local area and an estimated net profit of 31.69% of the habitat units will yield an estimated biodiversity, as well as the supply of a net increase of 54.25% in Hedgerow units and an increase of 13.10% in watercours.
According to planning documents, a maximum of 48 BESS containers can be installed on the site, as well as a control room, 132kV under station, CCTV infrastructure, new indigenous hedges and a surrounding area of new Soornrijk Grasland.
A final start date for the start of the construction has not yet been revealed, but sources have noticed that it could already start in 2027. Once constructed, the site is allowed to work for up to 40 years, after which the developers have to return the site to its former state.
Mark Dickinson, managing director of Energi Generation, stated that he and the company were very pleased to have secured and cited the building permit “The close working relationship between the technical team of Energi and the excellent team of professionals at Enzygo” as the reason for the success of the application. Dickinson also notes that this approval brings the development frame from Energi Generation to a total of more than 700 MW.
The UK has let its Bess capacity grow enormously in recent years. Recent analysis of Solar Media Market Research’s’Battery storage: UK Pipeline & Completed Assets Database ‘Report Discovered that the UK currently has 55.4 GW/117GWH from Bess capacity that has received a planning approval in the pipeline, with planning state awarded to Bess projects of a total of 1,590 MW/3,179 MWH capacity last month alone. Month to month, the Bess pipeline in the UK has steadily increased by 5% every month, the analysis has suggested.
