Energy firm targets 10 acre Ayrshire site for battery storage system

A huge battery storage site, designed to support the National Grid network, could be coming to Ayrshire.

Get all the local news in your area – plus features, football news and the latest on the coronavirus crisis – at your fingertips 24/7. The proposed development would allow electricity from the national grid to be stored in batteries at times of low demand and then “exported back” to the grid at times of high demand.

Also part of the wider proposals are the construction of a 2.4 m perimeter fence, infra-red , 4m pole-mounted CCTV cameras, security lighting, landscaping and an access road.In their screening request, AAH Consultants, the agents in the proposals, said: “Battery storage facilities must be located within reasonable proximity to a grid connection point.

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