Part of General Question Time – in the Scottish Parliament at on 5 December 2024.
At present, 18 battery sites are operational and a further 18 are under construction. Planning permission has been granted for 132 sites, where construction is awaited, and applications for planning permission have been submitted for a further 136 sites. The situation is completely out of control. One developer told us that there is a gold rush to get applications for battery sites into the planning process before the Scottish National Party Government puts controls in place.
Will the Government consider a moratorium on new applications until we have an energy strategy and can evaluate how many battery sites are required and where?