IDA , Purcellsinch , Dublin Road

What’s proposed

for development which will consist of the construction of a 100MW Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) with associated balance of plant, equipment and buildings including; a BESS building of 8m height, 82m length and 44m width (comprising on the ground floor a battery rack room, meeting room, Contractor/Storeroom, wet room, UPS room, switch gear room, WC, Transformer rooms, Inverter rooms; and on a mezzanine floor a HVAC/Store room); 2 no. 905m3 firewater storage tanks; an underground 830m3 surface water attenuation tank; an underground 1030m3 firewater retention tank; a 110KV electrical substation and control building of 5.2m height; an access and circulation road with new junction onto an existing IDA private road; footpath, 8 no. car parking spaces; landscaped berm wall up to 2.0m height and native tree and scrub planting, 3m paladin security fence; and all other associated site development works including surface water and foul drainage required to facilitate the developments

17818 is a planning application to Kilkenny County Council for for development which will consist of the construction of a 100MW Battery Energy Storage, received on 11 Dec 2017; permission was granted with conditions on 10 May 2018.

Planning details

Reference: 17818
Local authority: Kilkenny County Council
Status: Appeal decided — other · register status “APPLICATION FINALISED”
Received: 11 Dec 2017
Observations close: 24 Jan 2018 (closed 3169 days ago)
Decision due: 13 May 2018 · decided 10 May 2018
Decision: Conditional on 10 May 2018
Proposed development: for development which will consist of the construction of a 100MW Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) with associated balance of plant, equipment and buildings including; a BESS building of 8m height, 82m length and 44m width (comprising on the ground floor a battery rack room, meeting room, Contractor/Storeroom, wet room, UPS room, switch gear room, WC, Transformer rooms, Inverter rooms; and on a mezzanine floor a HVAC/Store room); 2 no. 905m3 firewater storage tanks; an underground 830m3 surface water attenuation tank; an underground 1030m3 firewater retention tank; a 110KV electrical substation and control building of 5.2m height; an access and circulation road with new junction onto an existing IDA private road; footpath, 8 no. car parking spaces; landscaped berm wall up to 2.0m height and native tree and scrub planting, 3m paladin security fence; and all other associated site development works including surface water and foul drainage required to facilitate the developments
As published by the register.
Site area: 1.40 ha from the mapped boundary, not the council's figure
Applicant: Not published — the national feed carries no applicant name council register

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Appeal

The register records appeal ABP-301797-18 (status unknown) but we have not matched the ACP case yet.

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Provenance

Register row from the national planning applications feed (NPAD), fetched 18 Sept 2026, 15:44 (store id 384176). Deadlines were computed by the store from the received / decided dates under the Planning and Development Act 2000 and are recorded as events, not recomputed here. Council register: http://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17818/0.

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