Trent BESS
Trent BESS (Battery Energy Storage System), once completed, will comprise a new energy storage facility located on land south of Torksey Ferry Road, Cottam and a flood compensation area on land east of Chequers Lane, Laneham. An underground cable connection will run from the BESS site to Cottam substation a few hundred metres to the north-east.
Tribus Clean Energy have developed this project in consultation with Bassetlaw District Council through the Town and Country Planning regime.
500 MW
of energy storage
16 hectare
principal site
25 hectare
flood compensation area
500 MW
of energy storage
16 hectare
principal site
25 hectare
flood compensation area
Local impact
Throughout the project development and considering the feedback from the community, measures have been put in place to reduce the impact of the project on local residents and the environment. The battery infrastructure will be kept at ground level with a surrounding landscaping scheme to manage visual impacts and will achieve over 10% biodiversity net gain.
The flood compensation area (approximately 2km further south of the Principal Site) developed in consultation with the Environment Agency, is designed to offset loss of floodplain storage caused by the new battery facility for the 30-year life of the project.
Traffic impacts will be managed by incorporating passing places along Retford Road, using traffic management and banksmen through Rampton, and scheduling deliveries outside peak hours to minimise disruption.
Environmental considerations
We carefully consider the environmental characteristics of a potential site when preparing proposals for a BESS, as well as possible impacts on people living nearby.
This involves carrying out surveys and assessments to understand potential impacts from development and any need for mitigation measures. Our design is informed by these assessments and includes measures to screen noise and views of the batteries.
Our assessments have identified a need to manage the potential impacts from the worst possible case of flood from the River Trent. We are therefore proposing a flood compensation area across a site southeast of Laneham and southwest of Church Laneham. This would allow flood water to accumulate safely and be drained to the River Trent via the existing drainage infrastructure.
The inclusion of this second parcel of land is intended to provide a long-term and sustainable solution for compensatory flood management to mitigate the impacts of a worst-case design flood event during the 25-year design life of the BESS facility.
The extensive flood modelling and analysis of topography within the area indicates that the works required for flood compensation are likely to require the extraction of some overburden, with some of the material to be stored on site in the form of sloped landscaped bunds and some material exported off-site to sustainable end-users. Topsoil will be wholly reused on site.
We are at an early stage in our design and welcome the views of the local community on our plans as part of this consultation. Your feedback will then be considered, alongside our environmental assessments, and will help to shape our plans.
The cable connection
The Trent BESS project will connect to the National Grid at Cottam substation.
This connection would be provided through underground cables between the battery site and the substation. Although Trent BESS has planning consent, the cable connection requires a separate planning application. We are therefore preparing to submit an application to Bassetlaw District Council.
Next steps
We expect to submit a planning application for both options for connecting the BESS to Cottam substation to Bassetlaw District Council shortly. Once submitted, you will be able to view the application documents and formally comment through the Council’s planning portal. Bassetlaw District Council will then consider the application before making a decision.
We will continue to keep you informed as the project progresses.
Document library
You can find out more by viewing the documents we have published as part of our public consultation:
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Cable route submission newsletter
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Submission community newsletter
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Consultation newsletter
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Site plan
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Exhibition boards
We will continue to update this section as our plans progress.
Contact the team
More information will be made available at the start of our consultation on 11th October 2024. However, if you have any questions before then, please feel free to contact the team by:
Phone: 0800 099 6176
Email: trentbess@secnewgate.co.uk
Post: TRENT BESS, FREEPOST SEC NEWGATE UK LOCAL
Share your views
We welcome your feedback on our proposal and any questions you may have about battery storage.
Where possible and appropriate, we will look to incorporate your comments on our evolving proposals. This information will assist in informing the final scheme for our planning submission.
Feedback can be provided either using our online questionnaire here or by the following means:
Phone: 0800 099 6176
Email: trentbess@secnewgate.co.uk
Post: TRENT BESS, FREEPOST SEC NEWGATE UK LOCAL