Battery storage · United Kingdom
Melksham Substation East Storage
Operational50 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 22 November 2022
The site
- Technology
- Battery storage (Stand-alone Storage)
- Capacity
- 50 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Statera Energy / Melksham East Storage
- Location
- Land to the south of Melksham Substation Westlands Farm Westlands Lane Whitley Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 7QG, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Wiltshire
- Planning application
- 17/04110/FUL
- First operating
- 2022
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Timeline
- 10 May 2017 Planning application submitted
- 26 April 2019 Planning permission granted
- 1 January 2022 Construction started
- 7 November 2022 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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