Battery storage · United Kingdom
Steyning Battery Energy Storage Facility
Abandoned18 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 20 March 2020
The site
- Technology
- Battery storage (Stand-alone Storage)
- Capacity
- 18 MW
- Status
- Abandoned
- Operator or applicant
- AMDC Energy
- Location
- Steyning WWTW, Kings Barn Lane, Steyning, West Sussex, West Sussex, BN44 3YR, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Horsham
- Planning application
- DC/18/0298
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Timeline
- 7 March 2018 Planning application submitted
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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