Battery storage · United Kingdom
Dunmill, Substation Dun - Battery Energy Storage
Awaiting Construction49.9 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 18 November 2025
The site
- Technology
- Battery storage (Stand-alone Storage)
- Capacity
- 49.9 MW
- Status
- Awaiting Construction (Planning Permission Granted)
- Operator or applicant
- Renewable Energy Systems Limited
- Location
- 300m Ne/O Bridge Of Dun, Substation Dun, Montrose, Angus, DD10 9LH, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Angus
- Planning application
- 24/00038/FULM
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Timeline
- 29 January 2024 Planning application submitted
- 14 August 2024 Planning permission granted
- 14 August 2030 Planning permission expired
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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