PUBLIC MEETING Tuesday 30th August 3pm-7pm Braco Village Hall
We are looking to engage with the local community and as part of our pre-application consultation we are holding a live event on the Tuesday 30th of August 2022. These will enable people to find out more about the proposal and to provide us with their views.
Comments made to ILI Group are not formal representations to the Scottish Government if we submit a planning application there will be an opportunity to make formal representations on the application to the Scottish Government.
What is the project
100MW Energy Storage facility containerised Battery Storage
The development would consist of containers containing batteries and associated equipment, an access track, electricity, meter building and fencing
Stores excess energy from the grid
Puts electricity back into the grid when required
This helps balance the supply and demand for the grid
Renewable energy is intermittent, This means we can’t rely on it to meet demand
Fossil fuel generators coal gas and nuclear make up the difference
As these go off line we need to be able to meet that demand
Energy storage lets us store renewable energy for when it is needed
National Grid ESO have estimated we need up to 37GW of energy storage by 2050
The Scottish Energy Strategy, published 2018, supports new energy storage capacity. It states that the Scottish Government will continue to support innovation and deployment in storage and to work to accelerate its penetration across Scotland.
Why in this Location?
The land is located near the GSP
There is available capacity at the Grid Supply Point
Across Scotland there are very few Grid Locations that can accept this level of power.
Location Plan
The site is located at Bentick Farm, around 3km west of Braco, Perthshire. The site is currently agricultural land used for cows and sheep. The closest houses are at Calzieveg at around 300 metres to the north east from the proposed equipment, and Tamano at around 400 metres to the south west. The old house on the farm is derelict.
Site Layout
Energy Storage Units
Store Units
Converters and Transformers
New Planting (native broadleaves (trees and shrubs)
Track
Substation Enclosure
Final layout subject to change
Energy Storage Units
Batteries, inverters, transformers and control equipment will be housed in steel containers of 13 metres by 2.5 metres by 2.6 metres high.
Solid state lithium batteries. would be used, as successfully employed on many other sites in the UK and worldwide.
Converters & Transfomers
12 transformers and converters are placed between the energy storage units
The power converters are around 1.6 by 1.4 metres, by 2.6 metres tall, and transformers are around 2.7 by 2.5 metres, by 2.8 metres tall.
The final equipment and size may vary slightly from that shown.
Substation
A small site substation is proposed to house Scottish Hydro switchgear, site switchgear, electricity metering and control equipment and health & safety equipment.
This would be a prefabricated GRP building up to 10 metres by 6 metres by 3.2 metres high.
Fencing
A 3m high wooden fence of 12kg/m2 would be built around the battery site.
A 1.2m post and wire stock fence would be built outside of that
PAN Questionnaire
ILI Group, The Shires, 33 Bothwell Road, Hamilton, ML3 0AS