Battery storage · United Kingdom
Wentlooge Renewable Energy Hub
Revised62.5 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 22 March 2019
The site
- Technology
- Battery storage (Co-located with RE)
- Capacity
- 62.5 MW
- Status
- Revised
- Operator or applicant
- Wentlooge Farmers' Solar Scheme
- Location
- Land SW of St Brides on the Gwent Levels, Gwent, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Welsh Government (NSIP)
- Planning application
- DNS/3216558
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Timeline
- 7 May 2020 Planning application submitted
- 10 September 2021 Planning permission refused
Incidents on the register at this site
None found. The register holds no published incident that names Wentlooge Renewable Energy Hub. If you know of one, report it (confidential reports are anonymised).
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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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