Pathfinder Clean Energy (PACE), a UK-headquartered international developer of utility scale solar and battery storage projects is submitting its latest energy storage project into planning.
The proposed energy storage scheme, known as Thurleigh Road Energy Storage System (ESS) will provide important grid balancing services to support the UK’s transition to a renewable energy system. The site has been carefully chosen to be well away from residential properties. It is already well screened and the proposals also include new native hedges and trees, which will provide habitats for local species.
The company now has more than 1.5GW of solar capacity in the UK in various stages of the development process and almost 300MWp fully permitted or submitted into planning. PACE has also announced its entry into the emerging UK green hydrogen sector.
Rob Denman, Managing Director of PACE said, ‘PACE is delighted to announce that the Thurleigh Road ESS Park will be submitted for planning in early 2023. This follows closely on from the announcement of our permitting approval of Mallows solar and energy storage park in December’.
‘PACE has been advancing this project for over 24 months and is now delighted to be in the final stages of the planning submission. Energy storage will play a substantial role in the route to Net-Zero and this project complements our various solar generation and solar+storage co-located projects in the UK and internationally. We continue to evaluate ways we can optimise our projects with the addition of new and existing technologies including solar, wind, green hydrogen but this is an exciting project that can connect as soon as permitting and the supply chain allows and make a contribution to the fight against climate change. This project we anticipate will be a 69MW/138MWh project initially but could potentially be expanded for longer duration storage’.