Plans for a green energy storage facility at Carrington Power Station where huge tanks will reach as high as 160ft have been submitted.

London-based Highview Power Limited wants to build a liquid air storage facility to generate clean power.

If Trafford’s planning committee approved the scheme, five liquid air storage vessels will tower 160ft high.

A further four ‘high-grade cold store vessels’ will be 130ft high. Molten salt tanks will stand 62ft high.

The plans also include circulation pumps and piping and two more buildings, parking, a perimeter fence and a grid transformer.

Construction is expected to take two years and the development is expected to have an operational life of at least 40 years.

In 2019, the UK became the first major economy in the world to commit to a ‘net zero’ carbon dioxide emission target, pledging to end the UK’s contribution to global climate change by 2050. 

In doing so, it further advanced the long-standing policy objective to de-carbonise the UK industry, within which energy generation remains one of the main emitters of greenhouse gases.