皇冠体育app鈥檙e charging ahead with our sun parks
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皇冠体育app鈥檙e moving as quickly as we can because it鈥檚 the best way to fight the climate crisis. Here鈥檚 an update of what鈥檚 happening at our sun park projects across Britain right now.
Ecotricity CEO, Asif Rehmanwala, caught up with our Generation Director, Steve Ellis, at Bulkworthy to talk about our new bifacial solar panels, how we鈥檙e helping the grid by using the existing infrastructure at our wind farm next door and our plans to boost biodiversity on the site.
Our new sun parks
皇冠体育app鈥檙e building two new sun parks which should be up and running this year. They鈥檒l generate around 16MW in total, which is enough to power around 5,000 homes.
Our sun park in Bulkworthy, Devon, is making great progress. The piles for the frames to stand on are finished, and the 23,000 solar panels themselves started arriving on 2 August. One month on, we鈥檝e installed over a quarter of them, and things are moving quickly.
In Dalby, Leicestershire, construction on the piles for the frames started at the end of July and is now nearly finished. 皇冠体育app plan to start installing the solar panels any day.
Heckington Fen Sun Park
Our latest planned project in the fight against climate crisis, the Heckington Fen Sun Park in Lincolnshire, would power the equivalent of over 100,000 homes with affordable green electricity and prevent around 75,000 tonnes of harmful emissions every year.
It鈥檚 important we get it right 鈥� for the climate, for nature and also for the local community. 皇冠体育app ran an initial consultation that ended in December 2021, following which we鈥檝e developed a new site layout, creating a longer circular walking route and adding a community orchard. 皇冠体育app鈥檒l make the rest of the land biodiversity net gain areas, helping pollinators to flourish.
The exact design hasn鈥檛 been decided yet and we ran a formal consultation to hear local people鈥檚 views on how to achieve the site鈥檚 full potential, which ended on 1 September 2022. 皇冠体育app鈥檙e now updating our proposals in readiness to submit our application to the Planning Inspectorate next year.
皇冠体育app鈥檝e had lots of great questions from customers about our solar parks and our plans to improve biodiversity, so many in fact that we鈥檝e written an article to answer them all. You can read it here.
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