Commercial battery storage installation in Nottinghamshire

An independent guide for sites in Nottinghamshire and the wider East Midlands area, including Mansfield, Newark-on-Trent, Worksop. This site is not an installer.

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Commercial battery storage installation in Nottinghamshire connects through National Grid Electricity Distribution (East Midlands), whose 2026/27 weekday red band is 16:00 to 19:00, with weekends all green. Applications for a battery go to one of seven district and borough councils rather than the county council, and part of the county sits inside the East Midlands Freeport. This guide covers the county outside the city of Nottingham, which has its own page.

The network operator and its charges

Nottinghamshire is in NGED’s East Midlands licence area (distributor ID 11 on your MPAN); operator boundaries do not follow county lines, so check the MPAN with who is my DNO for sites near a county boundary. NGED’s 2026/27 schedule of charges gives a red band of 16:00 to 19:00 Monday to Friday (amber 07:30 to 16:00 and 19:00 to 21:00), all green at weekends, and non-domestic red unit rates from 2.837 p/kWh (HV site specific) to 12.031 p/kWh (non-domestic aggregated) (NGED schedule). The industrial site guide puts that beside the other operators.

Checking capacity and applying

NGED publishes a Network Opportunity Map intended to guide users through existing and contracted network headroom, plus distributed-generation EHV constraint maps, and accepts smaller G99 applications through an online form. Its connections reform page lists a new Gate 1 to Gate 2 process announced in October 2026, so check the stage of a new application before you plan a date. The full process is in the G99 application guide.

Which council decides

Nottinghamshire has seven district and borough councils (Ashfield, Bassetlaw, Broxtowe, Gedling, Mansfield, Newark and Sherwood, and Rushcliffe) and Nottingham City Council as a separate unitary authority. A battery application normally goes to the district or borough council for the site’s address, not to Nottinghamshire County Council. An outdoor container usually needs planning permission because permitted development rights for renewable energy in England do not include batteries (planning permission for battery storage). The fire safety standards apply wherever the site is.

A Freeport tax site in the county

The Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station site in Rushcliffe is one of the East Midlands Freeport tax sites, alongside East Midlands Airport and the East Midlands Intermodal Park in Derbyshire (East Midlands Freeport). Freeport tax sites carry their own tax reliefs, including on plant and machinery. Whether a battery on a particular site qualifies depends on the site boundary and the relief, so check both with your accountant against HMRC’s guidance before modelling it. Outside a tax site, the usual route is the Annual Investment Allowance on up to £1m of qualifying spend a year (capital allowances).

Regional numbers

The East Midlands had 2,565.3 MW of solar on 163,084 sites at the end of 2025 (DESNZ regional renewable statistics) and non-domestic electricity use of 11,605.4 GWh in 2024 (DESNZ). For solar on the same roof, the European Commission’s PVGIS tool models Nottingham at about 974 kWh per kWp a year at the optimal 41 degree tilt facing south, and 873 at a 10 degree flat-roof tilt; a retrofit battery is covered in adding a battery to existing solar.

Funding

No open East Midlands business grant for a battery could be confirmed on 3 November 2026. The Nottingham Business Decarbonisation Grant, funded through the East Midlands Combined County Authority and UKSPF, reports that all funding is committed and the grant is closed. The Local Growth Fund gives the East Midlands £24 million in 2026/27 but states no direct business application route. See what a commercial battery costs.

Questions about a Nottinghamshire installation

How long will it take? The physical work is weeks; the NGED offer sets the programme, with ENA quotation clocks of 45 working days (LV) and 65 (HV). See how long a commercial battery installation takes.

What should I ask an installer? Use the installer checklist and ask for East Midlands G99 applications they have completed.

The other regions are on the regional guides page, and the guide to commercial battery storage installers covers the whole route.