Developer Aukera has received planning consent from the City of York council for a major BESS project, which said the urgent need for the technology outweighs the harm it will cause to the city's Green Belt. The battery energy storage system (BESS) project was approved by the council earlier this week (15 September). The UK has 7,582MW/11,369MWh of operational BESS today, as per figures from Solar Media Market Research’s Battery Storage: UK Pipeline & Completed Assets Database report. Related:Battery storage to transform corporate energy dealsAlthough Aukera was not named in the decision document, the project's planning reference 24/02303/FULM matches that given by Aukera for its project. The BESS units are 6 metres long (20 feet), 2.4 metres wide and will be finished in Moss Green colour, similar to some other notable UK BESS projects.