Woodcock Faulds Energy Storage Project

LIVE MEETING
25th May 2023
3pm-7pm
Plean Parish Church

We are looking to engage with the local community and as part of our pre-application consultation we are holding an exhibition to enable people to find out more about the proposal and to provide us with their views. Comments and feedback should be made by the 9th of June 2023 through the online comment form or to Greig Templeton, Planning Manager via email gt@ili-energy.com or by post to Woodcock Faulds Battery Storage Ltd, 33 Bothwell Road, Hamilton ML3 0AS. Comments made to us are not formal representations to the Scottish Government. If we submit an application for consent, there will be an opportunity to make formal representation on the application to the Scottish Government.

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What is the project

  • 200MW 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 +
  • 2GW 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 40GW 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 proposed development site is located at Woodcock Faulds Farm and is farmland that is presently used for livestock grazing as part of the working farm.
    The development would be accessed from the A872 via Thornedyke Road.
    The site is located around 2km SW of Plean, 2km north of Dunipace and 7 km from Stirling centre.
    The proposed battery energy storage equipment will be situated around 250 meters west of Woodcock Faulds Farm itself.
    The existing Denny North Substation is located about 1 km southeast of the site.

Site Layout

  • 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 site control building is proposed to house switchgear, metering and control and health & safety equipment. · This would be a building up to 13 metres by 6 metres by 3.2 metres high.

Converters & Transfomers

  • 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.

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