PLANS for a 200 kW micro energy storage system – known as a battery box – in the grounds of a sports club, have been given the go-ahead by Warrington planning chiefs.
The installation will be built in the grounds of Grappenhall Village Sports Club, off Stockton Lane, Grappenhall.
It will be surrounded by a 2.44 high timber fence. There is an existing telecommunications mast and an electricity sub-station nearby.
Planners decided the scheme could go ahead after hearing it would provide infrastructure associated with the move to low carbon and renewable energy. It would not result in any undue impact on the character and appearance of the area, nor on local amenity.
The development is not specifically for the sports club, although it has agreed to provide the site for applicants AMP Clean Energy.
It will help to provide flexibility to both the National Grid and local electricity networks to maintain power to the locality in the future when there will be increasing reliance on intermittent sources of renewable energy, such as wind and solar power.
