Plans have been submitted for a battery energy storage system (BESS) across 10.5 hectares of Green Belt land in South Oxfordshire.
Penso Power has applied to South Oxfordshire District Council to put 172 battery storage containers across 8.5 hectares of the site, next to the National Grid Cowley Substation, along with two 240,000 litre water tanks, two spare parts containers, a control room, switch room and welfare container.
The site, south of Grenoble Road, will be accessed from Blackberry Lane with underground cables connecting it to the substation. Each 6-metre x 3-metre container will be mounted on a concrete plinth.
Penso Power gives three points which it says justifies the required ‘very special circumstances’ for building in the Green Belt:
- The need for energy storage
- Lack of available non-Green Belt sites, or less sensitive Green Belt sites
- Benefits to the local area
The team on the project includes Renplan on planning, Western Ecology, Miles White Transport and Redbay Design as landscape consultants.
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