Infrabee's plans for a Battery Energy Storage Facility in Saltash, Cornwall have been approved!

The BESS facility, which is to be located on 3.62ha of land at Landulph, Saltash, Cornwall, has been designed with an electrical output of 80MW of energy.

The development includes for substantial habitat improvements, including new areas of scrub and meadow grassland outside of the BESS compound. The addition of substantial areas of woodland and hedgerows will result in an impressive 1,193% biodiversity net gain in hedgerow units.

As well as playing an essential part in the UK's transition to net zero through addressing the mismatch in renewable energy supply and demand, the scheme will also create jobs, provide a diversified income stream to local farm businesses and generate business rates for investment in council services.

Infraland were assisted on the scheme by Lanpro Services who provided expert planning, landscape, heritage and ecology advice.

Infrabee's Director of Planning, Hannah Salmon said "We are thrilled to have secured full planning permission for our BESS site under officer delegated powers. We are immensely proud of this scheme and have worked hard from the site identification stage, to successfully integrate the development into its surrounding landscape, minimise ecological impacts and maximise biodiversity gain."