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Opposition to battery storage site
Stirling Observer
|May 21, 2025
Residents are opposing a “blot on the landscape” Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) scheme by the shores of scenic Loch Tay.
Madrid-based Opdenergy have submitted plans for a 49.9MW storage facility, comprising 15 battery units the size of shipping containers, at a site near Morenish which the company insist can be developed “without causing significant environmental impact”.
However, a handful of nearby residents, and Glen Lyon and Loch Tay Community Council, have lodged objections with Perth and Kinross Council over the renewables scheme.
The Tir Artair site west of Morenish is next to the Loch Rannoch and Glen Lyon National Scenic Area as well as nearby Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve and SSSI. It is also within the Loch Tay Local Landscape Area.
Glen Lyon and Loch Tay Community Council chairperson Susan Dolan-Betney states in the group's objection: “The natural environment is not adequately valued.
“The [submitted] landscape and visual overview (LVO) minimizes and underplays the visual impact the proposal will have.
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