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Minchens Lane Battery Storage Facility
Minchens Lane Battery Storage Facility is an operational 100 MW battery storage site in Basingstoke and Deane, generating since 1 February 2025. Planning permission was granted on 8 October 2021, 8 months after submission. Operator of record: Penso Power (BW ESS).
Planning and build timeline
| Application submitted | 29 January 2021 |
| Permission granted | 8 October 2021 8 months after submission |
| Operational | 1 February 2025 40 months after consent |
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Basingstoke and Deane 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.
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.
Basingstoke and Deane’s record on battery storage
Basingstoke and Deane has decided 7 battery storage schemes and approved 100%, taking a median of 9.1 months. See every battery storage scheme decision in Basingstoke and Deane →
Other built sites within 15 km
| Site | MW | Distance |
|---|---|---|
Battery · Operational | 1 | 3.1 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | 4.2 | 3.2 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | 2.8 | 3.8 km |
EfW Incineration · Operational | 8 | 4.8 km |
Anaerobic Digestion · Operational | 1.2 | 5 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Under Construction | 17.87 | 7.3 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | 1.7 | 8.3 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Under Construction | 49.9 | 8.5 km |
How big is Minchens Lane Battery Storage Facility?
Minchens Lane Battery Storage Facility has a recorded installed capacity of 100 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 Minchens Lane Battery Storage Facility?
REPD records the operator as 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 Minchens Lane Battery Storage Facility approved and built?
The application was submitted on 29 January 2021. Permission was granted on 8 October 2021, 8 months later. The site became operational on 1 February 2025, 40 months after consent.
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 8434.
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