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Public Power Solutions (PPS), the wholly-owned company of Swindon Borough Council, the governing body of a small town between London and Bristol, has submitted a planning application to build one of the UK’s largest battery-based electricity storage facilities.
The battery storage scheme would provide the opportunity to deliver balancing services for the National Grid, to help enable the growing proportion of renewable generation in the UK.
It will have a maximum capacity of up to 50MW – making it one of the largest standalone batteries to be developed so far in the UK.
Steve Cains, Head of Power Solutions, PPS, said: “We’re really excited that Swindon continues to lead the way with implementing innovative green energy technologies. Rapid technological advances have now made energy storage a viable proposition.”
Cllr Toby Elliott, Swindon Borough Council’s Cabinet Member for Sustainability, said: “I am really excited by this battery storage project, which builds on the success of our award-winning community solar farm schemes and shows that Swindon is once again blazing the trail in the clean energy field. It also shows how our inventive use of technology can generate an income for the Council at a time when we are having to close a £30 million ($40.6m) funding gap over the next two and a half years.”
The planning application can be viewed on Swindon Borough council’s planning portal, reference number S/17/1879. If planning consent is obtained, the project is expected to be operational by 2019.
