Battery storage · United Kingdom
Tofts Lane
Planning Permission Expired40 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 27 May 2020
The site
- Technology
- Battery storage (Stand-alone Storage)
- Capacity
- 40 MW
- Status
- Planning Permission Expired
- Operator or applicant
- Enstor Power UK
- Location
- Tofts Lane, Snowden Hill, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S36 8YR, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Barnsley
- Planning application
- 2017/0624
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Timeline
- 3 May 2017 Planning application submitted
- 21 July 2017 Planning permission granted
- 7 September 2020 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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