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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Neil Pooran

Battery storage sites deemed ‘formidable’ for Scotland’s energy future

John Swinney visited the Coalburn 1 construction site (Jane Barlow/PA) - (PA Wire)

An £800 million deal which will create two further battery energy storage sites in Scotland – each of which are the largest in Europe – has been hailed as “formidable” by First Minister John Swinney.

Investment fund manager Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has announced it will build two more storage sites in addition to the one under construction in Coalburn, South Lanarkshire.

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