Battery storage · United Kingdom
Upper Newton Farm (Blythe House) - Solar Farm & Battery Storage
Awaiting Construction30 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 7 May 2026
The site
- Technology
- Battery storage (Co-located with RE)
- Capacity
- 30 MW
- Status
- Awaiting Construction (Planning Permission Granted)
- Operator or applicant
- Innova Renewables
- Location
- Upper Newton Farm, Draycott Road, Upper Tean, Staffordshire, ST10 4JN, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Planning application
- SMD/2022/0160
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Timeline
- 24 March 2022 Planning application submitted
- 1 February 2023 Planning permission granted
- 28 February 2028 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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