Green Belt energy storage system plan dismissed
SODC's planning committee rejected the project that would have led the system being installed on land off Lower Road
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A proposed energy storage system on a green belt has been refused.
The project, for land off Lower Road near Garsington, Oxfordshire, would have provided a 100MW Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) on the land for up to 40 years, proposer Net Zero Twenty One Ltd said.
South Oxfordshire District Council's (SODC) planning committee rejected the plan over concerns about it amounting to inappropriate development on the Oxford Green Belt and it having an adverse impact on the landscape.
It would have been built in open countryside and would have been connected to a sub-station south of Grenoble Road in Oxford, about 1.2km (0.7 miles) away, by an underground cable.
Another 200MW plan on land adjacent to the Cowley sub-station off Blackberry Lane near Blackbird Leys was approved last month for 30 years.
SODC said that plan, proposed by Penso Power, would contain enough power for 1.1m homes for two hours or all of South Oxfordshire's homes for 33 hours.
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