Balance Power wins permit for Cornish battery project

• The facility is expected to come online in 2028

Independent energy developer Balance Power has gotten approval for a roughly 50MW battery storage project in St Austell, Cornwall.

The project was granted growth authorization by Cornwall County Council, complying with extensive community engagement, church council meetings, as well as a pre-application.

The battery storage space facility will certainly be energised in 2028 and is anticipated to ease off around 258,000 tonnes of CO ₂ over its life time.

It is the latest of numerous battery advancements introduced by Balance Power, complying with the successful appeals of projects in Wolverhampton West, Sudbury, as well as Goring.

The firm has protected preparing approvals on more than 396MW of creating capacity, 164MW in 2022 alone, with a further 1.2 GW of producing capacity under growth. Balance Power has actually delivered 34 energy projects and is remaining to develop an ever-expanding portfolio of projects at critical places throughout the UK.

Phil Thompson, Chief Executive Officer at Balance Power, said: "We are proud to be growing our pipe of projects that will have a straight, positive impact on the UK's change to net zero and attaining energy safety and security.

" The issue over the UK's energy safety should be attended to via raised investment and advancement of renewables and power storage projects, in addition to the grid's infrastructure. I wish to praise Cornwall County Council, which considering that the start, has been very supportive of the project and also recognizes the favorable influence it will certainly have in the long-term.

" We look forward to seeing the project become completely operational in the coming years."