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The Great Oak Energy Hub is in Sussex and the 400MW BESS site was designed in collaboration with experts at the Knepp Estate. Illustrated map of the Great Oak Energy Hub via Clearstone Energy.

Clearstone Energy secures consent for two BESS projects with total 700MW capacity

April 14, 2025
Developer Clearstone Energy has secured planning consent for two large scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) in England.
Developers are moving fast on existing projects, either beginning the consultation process or submitting applications, with CP30 causing urgency in the market. Image: Andreas Troll via Pixabay.

30 new solar applications hit UK planning system in one month 

March 18, 2025
Solar Media Market Research analyst Josh Cornes talks through the months since the government’s Clean Power 2030 Action Plan was published, addressing how grid connection queue reforms and the 2030 deadline have impacted the UK’s solar development pipeline. 
Paul Wakely, head of strategic network development at the UK’s National Energy System Operator (NESO), said batteries are important “in all time scales—it is now part of our daily life in the energy system”. Image: Solar Media.

Batteries the solution to complexity and constraints of the future grid 

February 24, 2025
Storage and batteries are the “only way” to solve the “massively complex” green grid of the future, managing director of Adaptogen Capital James Mills said on a panel at the Energy Storage Summit in London last week.

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