Battery storage · United Kingdom
Maggots End Road, Berden - Solar Farm & Battery Storage
Application RefusedChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 25 March 2026
The site
- Technology
- Battery storage (Co-located with RE)
- Status
- Application Refused (Planning Permission Refused)
- Operator or applicant
- Low Carbon Limited
- Location
- Pelham Substation Maggots End Road Manuden, Hertfordshire, CM23 1BJ, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Uttlesford
- Planning application
- UTT/25/1224/FUL
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Timeline
- 16 May 2025 Planning application submitted
- 15 January 2026 Planning permission refused
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
What fails at battery storage sites · All battery storage incidents
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