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BBC News
a day ago
- Business
- BBC News
South Staffordshire battery storage scheme set for approval
Plans to transform five hectares of South Staffordshire agricultural land into a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) have been recommended for approval. The facility would have a lifespan of 50 years and store 100 megawatts of electricity, said those behind the project. Companies Elgin Energy Limited and Renewable Power Capital want to site the plants at The Roughs in Dimmingsdale and at the junction of Market Lane and Langley Road. The plans received 50 objections from local residents, with many stating that the development was inappropriate for the green belt. Lower Penn Parish Council called for the planning committee to turn down the MP Mike Wood also objected to the plans following a public meeting with residents to discuss the issue. The Kingswinford and South Staffordshire MP said: "Residents are rightly concerned about the impact this site would have on the local green belt and character of the area."[While] I appreciate the need for such sites, I do not believe that our precious green belt land should be sacrificed for battery storage systems." A South Staffordshire Council planning committee is set to meet on Tuesday 17 June to rule on the application recommended for approval by officers.A report to committee said the development would make a "significant contribution to energy security, by allowing surplus electricity from the grid to be stored and used when it is most needed".This news was gathered by the Local Democracy Reporting Service. Follow BBC Stoke & Staffordshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
BBC News
6 days ago
- Automotive
- BBC News
Concerns raised over Upton Magna lithium-ion battery site plan
Villagers opposing plans for a large battery storage plant have raised safety and traffic Energy has applied to set up the facility on land near Upton Magna in Shropshire, close to the Carter said he worried about the risk of fire or an explosion and Ann Fowler said the site would spoil the local its application to Shropshire Council, Elgin Energy said it had taken fire precautions and would screen the site with trees and bushes. Battery storage plants, or battery energy storage systems (BESS), stockpile wind and solar energy and release it when excess electricity is stored as chemical energy, usually inside lithium-ion batteries, so when conditions are calm and overcast it can be sent back into the power around fire safety stems from the lithium within the batteries, which can cause an explosion when it its planning application, submitted by agents Berry's, Elgin Energy said it had "taken on board guidance from the Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service and the National Fire Chiefs Council" when designing the also said the plans for the 10-acre site had been drawn up with "safety as a priority". It said that included measures including "fire detection in each container, over-temperature protection, ventilation systems, and aerosol fire extinguishing system". Mr Carter, who lives in Upton Magna, said residents first learned about the plans when leaflets were delivered to about 250 homes in the company wants to develop a site west of Pelham Road and it submitted its application in Carter said there was "insufficient infrastructure" around Upton Magna, and the nearby A5 was already well-used by people visiting the National Trust's popular Attingham Park biggest concern was the safety of the proposed plant, however, and he said: "These large battery energy storage systems present a very well-documented fire, explosion and chemical contamination risk."Mr Carter agreed there was a need for facilities such as the one proposed, but argued: "It's the location and it's the risk to the village, its the risk to personal life." Ms Fowler said there were sites "much more suitable than outside our very small village".She said people came to live there because it was a "beautiful village in a very rural setting and the large battery site would have "a major impact on the very reason why many people came to live here in the first place"."Find a brownfield site which is closer to the substation," she Reform UK councillor Brendan Mallon said: "This a clearly risky industrial process" and he pledged to fight the application. The planning application submitted to Shropshire Council said the proposed facility had the "capacity to store as much as 200 MWhs of electricity in one cycle – enough electricity to power over 26,666 typical local homes for a day".It also pointed to planning guidance which said "the planning system should support the transition to net zero by 2050". Shropshire Council said all planning applications would consider "the appropriate local and national planning policies" and a period of consultation on the plans will last until 13 Energy and Berrys have been contacted by the BBC for further comment. Follow BBC Shropshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
