Project Update – Following the submission of a Scoping Report to the Energy Consents Unit (ECU) of the Scottish Government on 31 January 2023, we received a response, the Scoping Opinion, from them on 27 April 2023. This is available to view on the documents page on this site or by searching for Earba on the ECU website. The Scoping Opinion provides feedback on our proposals for carrying out the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) which will be required to accompany the planning application that we propose to submit later this year. The Scoping Opinion includes input from many of the statutory and other consultees, which will allow us to firm up the surveys and methodologies to be used in the EIA. Some ecological and other survey works have been ongoing over the winter and spring, but there will now be a step up in this work following receipt of the scoping opinion, the onset of better weather and the start of the field season for some of the ecology surveys. We also plan to carry out some initial ground investigation works starting later in May.
Earba PSH Project Awarded Provisional LDES Cap and Floor Contract
The Earba PSH Project has reached another major milestone after securing a provisional Long Duration Electricity Storage (LDES) Cap and Floor contract from Ofgem under the UK Government’s new support mechanism for large-scale energy storage projects. Ofgem’s published ‘Minded-To' list identifies...
