Battery storage · United Kingdom
Hill Farm - Energy Barn
Operational10 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 15 March 2019
The site
- Technology
- Battery storage (Stand-alone Storage)
- Capacity
- 10 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Anesco/ Green Hedge Energy UK
- Location
- Hill Farm, Spring Lane, Packington, Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, Leicestershire, LE65 1WU, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Planning application
- 16/00735/FUL
- First operating
- 2017
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Timeline
- 22 June 2016 Planning application submitted
- 15 December 2016 Construction started
- 31 March 2017 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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