Battery storage · United Kingdom
Sandyforth Farm, Ashton Road - Battery Energy Storage
Awaiting Construction70 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 1 April 2025
The site
- Technology
- Battery storage (Stand-alone Storage)
- Capacity
- 70 MW
- Status
- Awaiting Construction (Planning Permission Granted)
- Operator or applicant
- UKGEA
- Location
- Sandyforth Farm, Ashton Road, Billinge, Wigan, Greater Manchester, WN5 7XZ, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Wigan
- Planning application
- A/23/96568/MAJOR
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Timeline
- 25 February 2017 Planning permission expired
- 7 February 2024 Planning application submitted
- 25 February 2025 Planning permission granted
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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