The Moorpark City Council has blocked efforts to place a large battery storage facility in outdoor containers on part of a 35-acre site. Developers had wanted the project, which would store electricity that could be sent to the grid during times of peak demand, to be outside rather than in a building, as the city's current zoning rules require.

The General Directorate of Energy Policy and Mines has rejected the request for prior administrative authorisation for the Oropesa photovoltaic solar park, with a peak power of 300 MW and nominal power of 250 MW, and its evacuation infrastructure, in the provinces of Toledo and Madrid, submitted by Energía Ercam. The project obtained an unfavourable Environmental Impact Statement in January 2023.

Councillors have thrown out plans to install a battery storage facility near Cults, after claiming it was “inappropriate”. Flexion Energy UK Storage wanted to build the 40MW facility on land at Newton of Pitfodels, just off Countesswells Road, near the Robert Gordon’s College playing fields and Ben Reid Garden Centre. Bosses at the school had previously raised their fears over the plan, which would have seen 48 battery units within 12 cabinets. They said a potential fire would put youngsters at risk of “potentially toxic vapour, fumes, or smoke”. The plan proved to be very unpopular with residents too, as 107 objections were submitted to Aberdeen City Council. Those opposing the battery system took issue with the chosen site, potential health and safety risks, noise nuisance, road access, as well as flooding and drainage.

Renewable energy developer RES has been denied planning approval for its proposed Stoneworthy Energy Storage project in Devon.The decision to reject the 49.9MW battery energy storage system (BESS) project was handed down at a meeting of Torridge District Council, with councillors voting six to two to deny planning permission, despite the assigned case officer recommending permission be granted.

A proposed solar project has become a hot topic in Knox County, Nebraska. In a decision that drew applause from most of a nearly full courtroom at the county courthouse in Center, Nebraska, the Knox County Board of Supervisors voted 6-1 Wednesday to deny a conditional-use permit application for a renewable energy project that Bluestem Energy Solutions of Omaha, Nebraska, wants to develop in the western part of the county.

On Sept. 10, the Will County Land Use and Development Committee rejected a Special Use Permit for the 3,600-acre solar energy plant planned for Custer and Reed townships. All five members of the committee voted unanimously to reject the special use permit, throwing a monkey wrench into plans for the solar energy plant. In Nov., 2021, ACCIONA Energia presented a plan to construct a solar energy plant in Custer Township on farmland between Essex Road east to Ohlhues south of Illinois 113. There were mixed feelings about the plan. Some landowners offered to lease their land to ACCIONA to develop the solar energy plant. Others, who feared a drop in property values, and didn’t wish to live amidst steel and glass, protested, some putting their concerns in writing. One objector, Nancy Fitzpatrick of Custer Park, who owns several parcels in the area, wants nothing to do with the proposed solar energy plant. In correspondence between Fitzpatrick and Marguerite Kenny, Will County Zoning Administrator, Fitzpatrick stated: “This project would not come to fruition on its own merit without federal and state incentives, such as Investment Tax Credits, the costs of which are borne by the taxpayers... Additionally, if those incentives became unavailable, it would leave the landowners with a potential clean up if the company abandons the project or fails to fund or decommission the development properly...”

Sherman denies proposed battery energy storage plant. Councilmembers denied the proposition Monday night in a 4-2 vote. Extra grid support, tax revenue, and an economic boost. Just some of the benefits Holley Energy Solutions said Sherman taxpayers would have felt if the proposed battery energy storage plant was approved. The storage facility would have been built near an existing solar plant and some residents. “Is it any other location that they can move the battery? It’s a great idea, I mean it is great but I don’t think its great for my neighborhood,” said one resident. The fire chief, Billy Hartsfield, told the council that the plant could bring fire risks. “There has been incidents involving battery storage facilities and they have had large evacuation areas... fire incidents have taken up to five days to control, thermal runaway causes bursting of one or more battery cells, releasing toxic, flammable, and explosive gases and intense self-sustaining fire,” said Hartsfield. His research found it happened eight times in the United States since January 2023.

A battery energy storage facility on land near Holsworthy the size of 10 football fields won’t be going ahead, at least for now. Torridge councillors prefer instead to protect the green fields and farmland at Pyworthy, west of the town. The district council’s plans committee was concerned by the cumulative effect on the landscape of what would be the seventeenth renewable energy project within a five mile radius. They voted against planning officers’ advice, despite being told that the application was likely to be approved if it went to appeal.

“We’ve got too many of these in the county now," was the statement Planning and Zoning commission chairwoman Kim DePew made prior to her 'no' vote on a special use permit for a solar farm in McNeal. With much of the community in opposition to the proposed solar farm on Prince Road, the county Planning and Zoning Commission voted to deny the special use permit required for the project to be built during the Wednesday meeting. Commissioners Nathan Watkins, Jim Martzke, Pati Fickett, Gerry Gonzalez, Randall Limbach and Larry Saunders denied the special use permit. Commissioners Robert Montgomery and Albert Young did not attend the meeting. County Planner II Matthew Taylor went through the summary of the planned 75 megawatt solar farm totaling 596.595 acres on two separate pieces of property which would straddle Central Highway south from the intersection with Prince Road. Total space used for the array would cover 400 acres. Many were worried the solar farm would use lithium batteries for storage of backup power which they saw as hazardous materials...Pierre Potgieter, with Environmental Testing USA (ETUSA), asked, “Who wants to live next door to a solar farm? This property may be suitable for it, but there are other locations that would be better. We were here first.”

More than a year after the city’s past commission approved plans to build the city’s first battery storage plant next to a school, commissioners have rejected a developer’s proposal to open an operation at the same site. So far, Stella Energy Solutions, a Woodlands-based company, hasn’t proposed building a plant storing massive lithium iron phosphate batteries, part of an evolving energy production industry shoring up the region’s electric grid, at an alternative site.