Decision due on south Longford's Lough Ree power plant
Longford County Council are set to make a decision on the battery energy storage facility in Longford on the site of the former Lough Ree power plant (LRP) in Lanesboro.
ESB signalled their intention to demolish the facility following the cessation of the generation of electricity at the ESB site in Lanesboro in December, 2020.
The development will consist of the demolition of the existing LRP station and the development and operation of “electricity grid services”. These services are a battery energy storage system (BESS) and a Synchronous Condenser (Sync Con).
The development comprises the demolition and site reinstatement, followed by construction and operation of the new BESS and Sync Con.
Phase 1 is the demolition of the existing site structures including the former LRP station (boiler house, turbine house, bag filter house and associated 80 m high stack); the intermediate peat storage building and associated fuel management system; and ancillary buildings including, electrical building, tippler building and associated control room and office, the screening building, lorry uploading building, water treatment plant building, offices building, laboratory building, workshop and maintenance buildings, oil pumphouse, electrics rooms, railway/locomotive service building, cooling water pump house and sewage/foul water treatment facility.
All buildings and structures (including storage tanks and vessels) will be demolished to ground level, with below ground voids filled.
Phase 2 comprises the proposed development of the BESS, Sync Con; and all associated development.