For development which will consist of the construction of a 100MW Battery Energy Storage System (BESS)…

Application details

Planning reference

17818

Council

Kilkenny County Council

Proposal description

For development which will consist of the construction of a 100MW Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) with associated balance of plant, equipment and buildings including; a BESS building of 8m height, 82m length and 44m width (comprising on the ground floor a battery rack room, meeting room, Contractor/Storeroom, wet room, UPS room, switch gear room, WC, Transformer rooms, Inverter rooms; and on a mezzanine floor a HVAC/Store room); 2 no. 905m3 firewater storage tanks; an underground 830m3 surface water attenuation tank; an underground 1030m3 firewater retention tank; a 110KV electrical substation and control building of 5.2m height; an access and circulation road with new junction onto an existing IDA private road; footpath, 8 no. car parking spaces; landscaped berm wall up to 2.0m height and native tree and scrub planting, 3m paladin security fence; and all other associated site development works including surface water and foul drainage required to facilitate the developments

Location / address

IDA, Purcellsinch, Dublin Road

Application type

PERMISSION

Received / registered

11 Dec 2017

Council decision

CONDITIONAL

Council decision date

10 May 2018

Appeal lodged

5 Jun 2018

Appeal decision date

14 Mar 2019