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    Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Planning
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    Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Planning

    Planning for BESS Systems

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    Planning for battery energy storage systems (BESS)

    Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are critical to enabling a flexible, low-carbon energy system — but they face evolving policy, technical and community expectations. Arthian offers specialist planning consultancy for BESS projects, helping clients secure consents for stand-alone and co-located energy storage schemes across the UK and Ireland. 

    Specialist planning support for BESS developments

    Our team provides clear, strategic planning advice tailored to the unique characteristics of BESS projects, from early opportunity assessment through to construction-phase planning compliance. 

    • Site feasibility and selection: We assess potential BESS sites against planning policy, grid connection, access, land use, flood risk, environmental constraints, proximity to receptors, and surrounding land designations. 
    • Planning strategy and consenting route: We advise on the appropriate planning route, information requirements, and engagement strategy, taking into account local authority expectations, emerging guidance, and the relationship with wider energy infrastructure. 
    • Planning applications for BESS: We coordinate and submit planning applications for new storage facilities or co-located schemes alongside solar or wind projects, ensuring the planning case is robust and clearly articulated. 

    Our BESS Planning Services

    Arthian’s team offers a comprehensive BESS planning service, which includes: 

    Technical and environmental considerations for BESS planning
    Planning documentation for BESS applications
    Stakeholder and community engagement for BESS
    Our BESS Planning Expertise
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    Technical and environmental considerations for BESS planning

    BESS projects raise specific planning and environmental questions around safety, noise, visual impact, and infrastructure integration. Our integrated approach ensures these are addressed comprehensively. 

    • Multidisciplinary coordination: We bring together inputs from environmental, engineering and safety specialists, including noise, air quality, ecology, hydrology, transport, and landscape, to create a coherent proposal. 
    • EIA and other assessments: Where required, we manage EIA screening, scoping and coordination, or other targeted assessments, ensuring that environmental risks are understood, mitigated, and clearly presented to decision-makers. 
    • Design and mitigation: We advise on site layout, fencing, landscaping, access design and other mitigation to minimise impacts and improve the scheme’s planning performance and community acceptability. 
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    Planning documentation for BESS applications

    We prepare a full suite of planning documents tailored to BESS schemes, ensuring that all technical and regulatory issues are clearly covered. 

    • Planning statements and supporting reports: We set out the planning justification for your BESS project, highlighting its role in enabling renewable energy integration, grid resilience, and decarbonisation. 
    • Supporting technical coordination: We work with your specialist designers and consultants to ensure consistent reporting across planning, safety, and technical documents, minimising risk of delay at validation or determination. 
    • Environmental statements where applicable: For EIA development, we coordinate or prepare Environmental Statements, ensuring that cumulative effects with associated generation or grid infrastructure are properly considered. 
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    Stakeholder and community engagement for BESS

    Effective engagement helps demystify BESS technology and address concerns before they become objections. 

    • Consultation strategy: We design proportionate consultation strategies for BESS proposals, using a mix of online and in-person tools appropriate to the project scale and local context. 
    • Key issue management: We help you explain BESS technology and address concerns such as safety, fire risk management, noise, traffic, and visual impact, integrating clear responses into planning submissions and consultation materials. 
    • Reporting and feedback: We ensure that stakeholder feedback is captured, responded to, and documented within Statements of Community Involvement and planning reports. 
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    Our BESS Planning Expertise

    Our experts offer a range of experience, including: 

    • Renewables and storage expertise: We specialise in planning for solar farms, wind farms and BESS, giving us a holistic understanding of how storage interacts with wider renewable infrastructure. 
    • Integrated planning and environmental support: Our planners are fully integrated with geotechnical, hydrological, ecological and other technical disciplines, providing coordinated advice for complex infrastructure schemes. 
    • Outcome-focused and resilient strategies: We emphasise clear, resilient planning strategies that anticipate regulatory change, environmental requirements, and stakeholder expectations, helping you deliver viable projects
    BESS 3

    Technical and environmental considerations for BESS planning

    BESS projects raise specific planning and environmental questions around safety, noise, visual impact, and infrastructure integration. Our integrated approach ensures these are addressed comprehensively. 

    • Multidisciplinary coordination: We bring together inputs from environmental, engineering and safety specialists, including noise, air quality, ecology, hydrology, transport, and landscape, to create a coherent proposal. 
    • EIA and other assessments: Where required, we manage EIA screening, scoping and coordination, or other targeted assessments, ensuring that environmental risks are understood, mitigated, and clearly presented to decision-makers. 
    • Design and mitigation: We advise on site layout, fencing, landscaping, access design and other mitigation to minimise impacts and improve the scheme’s planning performance and community acceptability. 
    BESS 3

    Planning documentation for BESS applications

    We prepare a full suite of planning documents tailored to BESS schemes, ensuring that all technical and regulatory issues are clearly covered. 

    • Planning statements and supporting reports: We set out the planning justification for your BESS project, highlighting its role in enabling renewable energy integration, grid resilience, and decarbonisation. 
    • Supporting technical coordination: We work with your specialist designers and consultants to ensure consistent reporting across planning, safety, and technical documents, minimising risk of delay at validation or determination. 
    • Environmental statements where applicable: For EIA development, we coordinate or prepare Environmental Statements, ensuring that cumulative effects with associated generation or grid infrastructure are properly considered. 
    BESS 3

    Stakeholder and community engagement for BESS

    Effective engagement helps demystify BESS technology and address concerns before they become objections. 

    • Consultation strategy: We design proportionate consultation strategies for BESS proposals, using a mix of online and in-person tools appropriate to the project scale and local context. 
    • Key issue management: We help you explain BESS technology and address concerns such as safety, fire risk management, noise, traffic, and visual impact, integrating clear responses into planning submissions and consultation materials. 
    • Reporting and feedback: We ensure that stakeholder feedback is captured, responded to, and documented within Statements of Community Involvement and planning reports. 
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    Our BESS Planning Expertise

    Our experts offer a range of experience, including: 

    • Renewables and storage expertise: We specialise in planning for solar farms, wind farms and BESS, giving us a holistic understanding of how storage interacts with wider renewable infrastructure. 
    • Integrated planning and environmental support: Our planners are fully integrated with geotechnical, hydrological, ecological and other technical disciplines, providing coordinated advice for complex infrastructure schemes. 
    • Outcome-focused and resilient strategies: We emphasise clear, resilient planning strategies that anticipate regulatory change, environmental requirements, and stakeholder expectations, helping you deliver viable projects

    Why Choose Arthian's Climate Transition Team?

    Engineering services delivered by specialists:

    Integration

    Fully integrated with geotechnical, hydrological, and ecological disciplines.

    Our Experience

    National experience with regional insight and regulatory familiarity.

    Our Understanding

    Deep understanding of planning, infrastructure, and environmental interfaces.

    Results Driven

    Commitment to technical rigour, clear communication, and long-term outcomes.

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