Campaigners are demanding an immediate moratorium on new battery storage developments, as a new report found projects already proposed could provide four times more electricity storage than will be needed by the end of this decade.
The demand came as Dr Kate Jones, director of the charity Action to Protect Rural Scotland (APRS), said that planning permission had been granted for battery storage sites “metres from 5,000-year-old prehistoric sites, in woodlands, and on prime agricultural land”. https://www.ireland-live.ie/news/scotland/1958151/moratorium-urged-on-battery-storage-sites-as-report-claims-huge-oversupply.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawOdYbNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEemntvPmLEKbM-RJ5b_txfGEP4dYkA_NYmsh3CBTgEsLFCbHY9Y8Gm_xzXUWo_aem_crwweBCZlryAyxU0QIncnA
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