Battery storage · United Kingdom
Cowley electricity sub-station
Operational49.9 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 9 March 2026
The site
- Technology
- Battery storage (Co-located with fossil fuel plant)
- Capacity
- 49.9 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Pivot Power
- Location
- Cowley Main Sub Station, Lower Blackberry Lane, Garsington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX44 9BD, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Planning application
- P19/S0623/FUL
- First operating
- 2021
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Timeline
- 25 February 2019 Planning application submitted
- 4 June 2019 Planning permission granted
- 15 November 2019 Construction started
- 22 June 2021 Operational
Incidents on the register at this site
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Incidents at battery storage sites in the United Kingdom
The register holds 14 incidents at battery storage sites in the United Kingdom, 9 of them fires, and 176 worldwide. Counts of incidents in published reporting, not rates.
- Fire in home battery storage system connected to solar panels
- Gas leak at Cockenzie battery storage site under construction
- Short circuit in lithium battery cells reported as cause of fire at Rufford Colliery BESS
- Smoke and fire incident at Battery Box, Pinhoe Road, Exeter
- Battery storage site fire in East Tilbury brought under control after 24 hours
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