Power plant · West Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Pond Industrial Park, Whitburn Road - Pond Battery Storage
Pond Industrial Park, Whitburn Road - Pond Battery Storage is a permitted power plant in West Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 200 MW of capacity, operated by Banks Renewables.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | West Lothian (coordinates), Scotland | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Pond Industrial Park, Whitburn Road, Bathgate, EH48 2HR | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Permitted (planning permission granted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 24 Mar 2025 (permit ECU00004765, Electricity Act 1989 section 36, issued by Scottish Government (S36)) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 13 May 2024 (reference ECU00004765, planning authority Scottish Government (S36)) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 24 Mar 2025 (granted, reference ECU00004765, planning authority Scottish Government (S36)) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Banks Renewables | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 200 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Battery (stand-alone storage) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 55.8882, -3.6548 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Pond Industrial Park, Whitburn Road - Pond Battery Storage is the 82nd-largest of 872 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Scotland and the 279th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 200 MW is <0.1% of the 300,661 MW of power plants planned, permitted or under construction we hold for the United Kingdom. It is not built yet, so it is ranked among the power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data, apart from the ones running today. Ranks and totals cover the ones that report their capacity.
| Within | Rank | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 82nd of 872 | 99,272 MW | 0.2% |
| United Kingdom | 279th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 741st of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 15 grid connections (5 operating, 51 MW), 14 data centers and 8 substations, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sungard Availability Services | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
| Edinburgh SC-3 | Data center | — | — | 16 km |
| DataVita DV1 | Data center | — | — | 20 km |
| Generating Station grid connection | Grid connection | 21.4 MW | Operating | 35 km |
| Glendevon Primary | Substation | — | — | 36 km |
| Patrickston Farm - PV + Battery grid connection | Grid connection | 15.9 MW | Planned | 39 km |
| Dunblane Primary | Substation | — | — | 39 km |
| Windburn Wind Farm 75MW Wind, 35MW BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 110 MW | Planned | 40 km |
| Milnathort Primary | Substation | — | — | 41 km |
Operator and place
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- Lethans Wind Farm Extension66 MW · permitted
- Birneyknowe Wind Farm60 MW
- Middle Muir Wind Farm51 MW
- Barnsdale Road Solar Park - Battery Energy Storage40 MW
- Barnsdale Road Solar Park40 MW · under construction
Other power plants in Scotland
- Seagreen1,075 MW
- Moray East950 MW
- Moray West Offshore Wind Farm Project882 MW
- Lewis Wind Farm (Barvas Moor)652 MW
- Beatrice588 MW
- Neart na Gaoithe450 MW
- Viking Wind Farm443 MW
- Cruachan440 MW
Data on this page
- DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD). DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.