LIVE MEETING 10th May 2022 3pm-8pm Macduff Sports and 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 10th of May 2022 3pm-7pm at The Macduff Sports and Community Centre. These will enable people to find out more about the proposal and to provide us with their views.
Comments and feedback should be made by the 13th of May 2022. Please use the form below or write to Grieg Templeton, Planning Project Manager via email: gt@ili-energy.com or by post to ILI Group, 33 Bothwell Road, Hamilton ML3 OAS.
Comments made to ILI Group are not formal representations to Aberdeenshire Council. If we submit a planning application there will be an opportunity to make formal representations on the application to Aberdeenshire Council.
What is the project
49.9MW 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?
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 beside the Macduff National Grid Substation off Law Doune Road, Macduff. The site is agricultural land. The closest houses are around 100 metres to the east Corskie Drive.
Site Layout Option
Energy Storage Units
Store Units
Converters and Transformer
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.
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.
Converters & Transfomers
13 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.
PAN Questionnaire
Macduff Energy Storage Project
ILI Group, The Shires, 33 Bothwell Road, Hamilton, ML3 0AS