DND granted planning consent for battery storage facility

The site, known as the Edwin Richards Energy Storage Park, is being developed in partnership with waste management company FCC Environment.

The planning permission allows a facility of up to 100 MW / 200 MWh which will store enough energy to power 300,000 homes for two hours.

FCC Environment CEO Steve Longdon said: “As one of the UK’s largest waste and resource businesses, we know it’s our duty to do the best by our environment and the communities in which we operate.

“We have a large landholding across the UK, and it is our responsibility as land stewards to manage that land in a sustainable way and return it back to productive environmental use once it is no longer required for operational purposes. As such we are delighted to be working with DRD on this and other projects to do just that.”

The partnership also plans to develop a portfolio of sites across the UK including onshore wind, battery storage and solar farms.

DRD was established by investment manager Downing to develop an exclusive pipeline of solar PV, battery energy storage and onshore wind assets across the UK for the Downing-managed energy funds.

The company was granted its first planning consent last year for a 49.9 MW solar farm in Norfolk, part of its 6GW pipeline of development projects across the UK.

Tony Gannon, head of Downing Renewable Developments added: “Our relationship with FCC Environment has been an important step as we continue to grow our business, particularly given the joint benefits we can achieve of using largely brownfield land for renewable energy purposes. We look forward to building on this partnership as we continue to develop further projects.”