Angus Council is not opposed to a £40 million battery storage plant near the border with Dundee capable of holding enough power to supply 35,000 homes a year.

The 80 megawatt proposal would be the largest of its kind in the county.

Proposals for the site near Duntrune first emerged earlier this year.

A second phase of the multi-million pound development involves the creation of a solar farm on land north east of Gagie Home Farm.

Sirius EcoDev (Tealing) is the company bidding to build the battery energy storage system (BESS).

It would capture excess wind and solar power and store it in banks of batteries on the Angus farmland.

Project consultants AE Associates say it is aimed primarily at renewables, which tend to fluctuate.