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Hams Hall - Battery Energy Storage System
Hams Hall - Battery Energy Storage System is a 400 MW battery storage site under construction in North Warwickshire. Planning permission was granted on 4 March 2022, 7 months after submission. Operator of record: Welbar Energy Storage Limited / Penso Power (BW ESS).
Planning and build timeline
| Application submitted | 5 August 2021 |
| Permission granted | 4 March 2022 7 months after submission |
| Operational | not recorded |
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North Warwickshire approves 100% of battery storage schemes. Redline puts that number, and everything else the record holds, against your own boundary: the authority’s actual approval rate and decision times, every designation inside the red line, agricultural grade, 1 m LIDAR earthworks, how contested the grid is, and yield with a P90 — before you spend on a consultant.
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What this site sits on
The recorded coordinate falls on land surveyed as Grade 3 agricultural land. The published survey does not split Grade 3 into 3a and 3b, so this alone does not settle whether the land counts as best and most versatile.
- Green Belt — North Warwickshire
REPD gives one representative coordinate per scheme, not the site boundary, so this describes the point on record rather than the whole site — a large site can straddle a designation edge. Boundaries come from planning.data.gov.uk, which publishes for England only.
North Warwickshire’s record on battery storage
North Warwickshire has decided 8 battery storage schemes and approved 100%, taking a median of 7.1 months. See every battery storage scheme decision in North Warwickshire →
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How big is Hams Hall - Battery Energy Storage System?
Hams Hall - Battery Energy Storage System has a recorded installed capacity of 400 MW. That figure is the capacity registered in REPD, which is the scheme as consented — the metered output of a site can differ.
Who operates Hams Hall - Battery Energy Storage System?
REPD records the operator as Welbar Energy Storage Limited / Penso Power (BW ESS). Ownership of built renewable assets changes hands regularly and REPD is published quarterly, so treat this as the operator of record rather than confirmation of who owns it today.
When was Hams Hall - Battery Energy Storage System approved and built?
The application was submitted on 5 August 2021. Permission was granted on 4 March 2022, 7 months later. The site is recorded as under construction and has no operational date yet.
Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0, plus planning designation boundaries from planning.data.gov.uk (England only). REPD is published quarterly and covers schemes of roughly 150 kW and above. Capacity is the installed capacity on record, not metered generation. Operator is the operator of record at the last extract, not confirmation of present ownership. Reference 9427.
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