Battery storage · United Kingdom
Shindour - Energy Storage Facility
Awaiting Construction49.9 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 3 February 2025
The site
- Technology
- Battery storage (Stand-alone Storage)
- Capacity
- 49.9 MW
- Status
- Awaiting Construction (Planning Permission Granted)
- Operator or applicant
- Gigabox Developments Limited
- Location
- Shindour Feddal Hill Wood Braco, Dunblane, Tayside, FK15, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Stirling
- Planning application
- 21/00756/FLM
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Timeline
- 14 May 2021 Planning application submitted
- 16 December 2021 Planning permission granted
- 16 December 2025 Planning permission expired
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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