Drongan Energy Storage Project

PUBLIC MEETING
14th May 2024
3pm-7pm
Drongan Community Centre

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 31st 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

Who are ILI Group?

  • Energy Storage Development Company
  • Based in Hamilton, Lanarkshire
  • Started in 2017
  • Bringing 4GW of Energy Storage to Scotland
  • Developing 3 Pumped Storage Hydro Projects 450MW +
  • 1GW of Battery Storage

Why is it needed?

  • Scotland has a Target of Net Zero by 2045
  • 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 lies a short distance west of the Coylton national grid substation off the A70 road, around 1 km north east of the town of Drongan and around 300 metres from the closest houses at Shield north of the road.

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 fence would be built around the battery site.
  • A 1.2m post and wire stock fence would be built outside of that
  • Landscape bund and tree planting

PAN Questionnaire