Battery storage · United Kingdom
Elstree Substation, Hilfield Lane - Battery Energy Storage
Application Withdrawn400 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 25 November 2024
The site
- Technology
- Battery storage (Stand-alone Storage)
- Capacity
- 400 MW
- Status
- Application Withdrawn (Planning Application Withdrawn)
- Operator or applicant
- Chiltern Renewables Hockliffe Limited
- Location
- E/O Elstree Substation, Hilfield Lane, Aldenham, Hertfordshire, WD25 8DT, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Hertsmere
- Planning application
- 23/1508/OUT
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Timeline
- 14 November 2023 Planning application submitted
- 21 November 2024 Application withdrawn
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 177 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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