tes against a predicted 1000-year flooding event.
A flood maintenance plan ensures that the clearance and removal of any debris happens after flood events. An alarm is also installed on site, which alerts UK Power Networks control engineers in the event of a flood.
The raised building design was balanced with the need to minimise the visual impact of the building and keep it below the levels of existing housing.
A sustainable drainage system (SuDS) was implemented to ensure flood risk is not increased to other areas surrounding the battery storage site. This included using shingle drainage around the building. Other measures to manage drainage include soakaways, swales, infiltration basins, permeable paving or retention ponds.
Get a Clearer Picture
Farmers and other rural landowners, faced with uncertainty over Brexit are also looking at battery storage facilities and the potential to accommodate them via the planning regime for income generation. So it is anticipated that the need to verify site suitability, especially to identify flood risk and how this impacts on the development opportunity, will be a key planning consideration.
GeoSmart understands how river, surface and groundwater flooding can affect infrastructure development sites. We work with utilities to map and alert asset managers on groundwater flood risk as well as identifying optimum locations and maintenance priorities.
Our expert flood risk consultants will advise on flood zones and constraints, as well as potential vulnerabilities that could impact on proposed energy infrastructure applications.