Battery storage · United Kingdom
West Boldon Substation - Battery Energy Storage
Awaiting Construction60 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 15 July 2025
The site
- Technology
- Battery storage (Stand-alone Storage)
- Capacity
- 60 MW
- Status
- Awaiting Construction (Appeal Granted)
- Operator or applicant
- Whirlwind Energy Storage Limited
- Location
- East of the West Boldon Substation, 400 metres south of the A184 and 300m East of the A189 in South Tyneside, Tyne And Wear, NE35 9PE, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- South Tyneside
- Planning application
- ST/0486/23/FUL
- Appeal reference
- APP/A4520/W/24/3350689
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Timeline
- 17 July 2023 Planning application submitted
- 21 June 2024 Planning permission refused
- 20 September 2024 Appeal lodged
- 10 December 2024 Planning permission granted
- 10 December 2024 Appeal granted
- 10 December 2027 Planning permission expired
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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 176 worldwide. Counts of incidents in published reporting, not rates.
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- 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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