Cowpen Bewley, Seal Sands Link Road (200 MW battery storage)
Cowpen Bewley, Seal Sands Link Road is a 200 MW battery storage project in Stockton-on-Tees, England. Its status in the Renewable Energy Planning Database (July 2026 extract) is: application submitted on 22 January 2025, no decision recorded; the record was last updated on 6 February 2025.
200 MWbattery storage
application submittedstatus in REPD
6 February 2025record last updated
Stockton-on-Teescouncil area
Planning timeline
| Date | Stage |
|---|---|
| 22 January 2025 | Application submitted |
Project details
- Technology
- battery storage (stand-alone storage)
- Capacity
- 200 MW
- Status (REPD)
- application submitted
- Record last updated
- 6 February 2025
- Operator or applicant
- Harmony Energy Limited
- Planning authority
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Planning application reference
- 24/2141/FUL
- Address (REPD)
- Cowpen Bewley, Seal Sands Link Road, Middlesbrough
- Council area (by location)
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Name in REPD
- Cowpen Bewley, Seal Sands Link Road - Battery Energy Storage
- REPD reference
- 17005
Who decides
| Applications | Stockton-on-Tees | UK |
|---|---|---|
| Decided applications (solar, wind, battery) | 32 | 10,236 |
| Refused | 0 (0%) | 19% |
| Solar refused | 0 of 20 | 12% |
| Onshore wind refused | 0 of 3 | 45% |
| Battery storage refused | 0 of 9 | 16% |
| Median time from submission to decision | 16.4 weeks | 17.0 weeks |
| Appeals lodged / allowed | 0 / 0 | — |
Other large projects within 10 km
| Project | Type | MW | Status | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tees Wind North | wind farm | 45 | abandoned | 2.2 |
| Teesworks Battery Storage Project | battery storage | 1,000 | application withdrawn | 3.9 |
| Graythorp Wind Turbine | wind turbine | 7.5 | application withdrawn | 4.1 |
| Tesside GigaPark | battery storage | 1,000 | application submitted | 4.5 |
| Tofts Road Wind Turbine | wind turbine | 7.5 | application withdrawn | 4.7 |
| Wilton International, Greystones Road - Phase 1 | battery storage | 150 | approved, not built | 4.8 |
| Greystones Road, Grangetown | battery storage | 60 | approved, not built | 4.8 |
| Brenda Road Wind Turbine | wind turbine | 7.5 | application withdrawn | 5.1 |
| Lackenby | battery storage | 49.9 | permission expired | 5.5 |
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 (54.6096, -1.1681).