Asturias initially approves battery siting guidelines and extends its permit suspension by a year

Asturias's regional planning commission (CUOTA) has granted initial approval to sectoral guidelines for battery storage installations on non-developable land. They set criteria for standalone installations above 3 MW: priority for industrial, mining, energy or degraded land and for proximity to grid connection nodes, exclusion of specially protected land, a 200 m territorial safeguard zone and a 50 m minimum distance from dwellings. The commission also extended by one year its suspension of permits for such installations, which does not reach industrial, mining or degraded energy land, nor self-consumption below 3 MW. A two-month public consultation period will follow.