By Paul Homewood
h/t Philip Bratby
Plans have been revealed to build a solar farm big enough to power 363,000 homes close to a town – which could make it the biggest in the UK.
RWE, an international renewable energy company, has proposed to build a 720-megawatt (MW) solar farm with integrated battery storage which would be located across 4,000 acres of land on five sites in parts of Swaffham and Breckland.
The company has said that the ambitious project – called High Grove Solar Farm – would provide a “significant contribution” to the UK’s renewable energy capacity.
Proposed site areas for the solar farm would be located north of Swaffham, in Sporle and on land between Narborough and Swaffham.
It would be the most ambitious infrastructure project of its kind and fifteen times larger than Llanwern solar park in Wales, currently the UK’s largest at around 260 acres.
720MW won’t power 363,000 homes. In mid-winter it will only produce about 21MW, equivalent to just 0.03% of Britain’s electricity. That amounts to 7800 homes.
Breckland District, interestingly, has a population of 143,000, in the region of about 60,000 households.
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September 13, 2024 at 04:30AM
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