Cardiff City Council unanimously approves 1GW BESS
Publish Time：2024-10-19
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A 1,000MW battery energy storage system (BESS) to be constructed alongside a data centre in Splott, Cardiff, has been unanimously approved by the city council.
It is purportedly the largest BESS to successfully secure planning permission so far in the UK.
The planning application was submitted in March this year for a 16.42 hectare area of land in the Tremorfa industrial area that formerly housed the steelworks and sewage treatment facilities.
The project, which had been recommended for approval, will comprise 828 high-efficiency containerised battery storage units with a substation central to the park. The facility will incorporate tree-planting and lower screen planting.
A computer-generated image showing what the site might look like when completed. Image: GJP.
According to planning documents, the BESS will store renewable energy from the National Grid network and the data centre that will also be at the site aims to be carbon neutral, through on-site renewable energy generation and importing green energy.
Planning and development consultancy GJP supported the application by Latos Data Centre Ltd & Tremorfa Energy Park Ltd, including the provision of an environmental impact assessment. Latos’ company website states that it “rises to creative and technical challenge” of delivering net zero data centres.
Wales is also home to a 460MWh BESS, slated to be one of the UK’s largest, being developed by E.ON and Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners. The latter is also overseeing a 150MW BESS co-located with a 373MW solar park that is the largest consented development in the UK.
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