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Plans approved for world’s largest battery storage scheme
2/8/2023
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Carlton Power has secured planning permission for what is claimed will be the world’s largest battery energy storage scheme (BESS), a 1 GW (1,040 MW/2,080 MWh) project located at the Trafford Low Carbon Energy Park in Greater Manchester, UK.
Subject to a final investment decision (FID), construction of the £750mn BESS is expected to begin in 1Q2024, for commercial operation in late 2025. The Trafford BESS will be more than double the size of the current largest BESS in the world, the 400 MW Moss Landing facility in California, US.
The Trafford BESS is Carlton Power’s second major energy project that has been consented for the 12-hectare energy park, and is located near the £750mn Carrington flexible gas-fired power station, which entered operation in 2016. The other project is a 200 MW green hydrogen scheme, the first phase of which (15–20 MW) is also set to enter commercial operation in 4Q2025.
Meanwhile, Highview Power Storage is planning to build and operate what it claims will be the world’s first commercial liquid air storage system, a £250mn, 250 MWh long duration, cryogenic energy storage system at the Trafford energy park, which was until 1991 the site of the Carrington coal-fired power station.
