Bicker Drove (100 MW battery storage)
Bicker Drove is a 100 MW battery storage project in Boston, England. Its status in the Renewable Energy Planning Database (July 2026 extract) is: approved on 5 February 2025, not yet built; the record was last updated on 25 February 2025.
100 MWbattery storage
approved, not builtstatus in REPD
25 February 2025record last updated
Bostoncouncil area
Planning timeline
| Date | Stage |
|---|---|
| 17 September 2024 | Application submitted |
| 5 February 2025 | Planning permission granted |
| 5 February 2030 | Permission due to expire (unless work starts) |
Project details
- Technology
- battery storage (stand-alone storage)
- Capacity
- 100 MW
- Status (REPD)
- approved, not built
- Record last updated
- 25 February 2025
- Operator or applicant
- Net Zero Twenty Two Limited
- Planning authority
- Boston
- Planning application reference
- B/24/0374
- Address (REPD)
- N/O Bicker Drove, Boston
- Council area (by location)
- Boston
- Time to decision
- 20 weeks
- Name in REPD
- Bicker Drove - Battery Energy Storage System
- REPD reference
- 17344
Who decides
| Applications | Boston | UK |
|---|---|---|
| Decided applications (solar, wind, battery) | 19 | 10,236 |
| Refused | 1 (5%) | 19% |
| Solar refused | 1 of 14 | 12% |
| Onshore wind refused | 0 of 1 | 45% |
| Battery storage refused | 0 of 4 | 16% |
| Median time from submission to decision | 14.9 weeks | 17.0 weeks |
| Appeals lodged / allowed | 0 / 0 | — |
Other large projects within 10 km
| Project | Type | MW | Status | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bicker Fen | wind farm | 26.7 | operational | 1.0 |
| Bicker Fen Bess, Vicarage Drove | battery storage | 400 | approved, not built | 1.3 |
| Vicarage Drove Solar farm & Battery storage | solar farm | 49.9 | approved, not built | 1.6 |
| Cowbridge Road, Bicker Fen | solar farm | 75 | under construction | 2.0 |
| Little Hale Fen Solar Farm | solar farm | 50 | approved, not built | 3.5 |
| Little Hale Drove, Little Hale Fen | battery storage | 99 | approved, not built | 4.0 |
| Heckington Fen Solar Park | solar farm | 500 | approved, not built | 4.1 |
| Nowhere Farm | solar farm | 8.1 | operational | 6.7 |
| Heckington Fens | wind farm | 54 | permission expired | 7.1 |
Status and dates as recorded in the Renewable Energy Planning Database (July 2026 extract); the database is compiled from public sources and can lag behind council decisions. Location: REPD grid reference (52.9398, -0.2035).