Large battery storage unit to be built near Elgin
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Moray councillors have granted planning permission for a 30 megawatt battery storage system on the outskirts of Elgin.
Apatura Energy put forward the proposal to build the plant on a site just off the main Elgin-Lossiemouth A941 road
The site covers an area about the size of a football pitch and is currently occupied by a vacant shed.
Permission has been given by the local authority to construct 12 battery storage containers, as well as transformers, inverters, a control room and three parking bays.
Trees and hedges will be planted along the boundaries
Permission will last for 40 years from the date it connects to the grid.
The full application can viewed by clicking HERE and looking at pages 63-82.
The battery storage system is about a fifth of the size of Europe's largest.
That is the 150MW Minety project near the town of Swindon in south-west England.
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