Electrical storage facility within a site area of up to 4.2 hectares and comprise…
Rathcoursey West and Rathcoursey East, Midleton, Co. Cork
Proposed development
The development will consist of an electrical storage facility within a site area of up to 4.2 hectares and comprise a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) compound to include: battery units and inverters with connecting cabling; switchroom and diesel generator; two steel storage containers; modular office and welfare building; crane hardstanding; 262 metre length internal access tracks and up to four parking bays; foul and surface water drainage system including attenuation pond; palisade security fencing; landscaping; CCTV system; approximately 90 metre length 33kV double-circuit underground grid connection cable to the adjacent permitted Rathcoursey 110kV substation and associated electrical ducting; and all ancillary development
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