Government Approval For Large Solar Farm
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on the BBC.
This is the sub-heading.
A large solar farm in East Yorkshire has been given the go ahead by the government.
These two introductory paragraphs add more detail.
The 3,155 acre (1,277 hectares) site will be built on land around Gribthorpe, Spaldington and Wressle and Howden.
Its developers said it would produce 400 megawatts of electricity – enough to power 100,000 homes.
Note.
- This solar farm is five square miles or a 2.2 mile square.
- Due to the size of the scheme the planning application was handled by the Planning Inspectorate as it was classed as national infrastructure.
- Ed Miliband may have been involved in the final decision.
- The solar farm would connect to the National Grid at the Drax substation in North Yorkshire.
But the solar farm is not without opposition, as these last three paragraphs indicate.
George McManus, spokesman for East Riding Against Solar Expansion (ERASE), said the approval “brings us a step closer to enormous swathes of agricultural land being blanketed in a million, Chinese manufactured, solar panels.”
He added: “Other projects in the pipeline will see another 20,000 acres disappear under glass.
“The East Riding is being industrialised and people need to wake up to that.”
Nothing is said about where Reform UK’s Mayor for Hull and East Yorkshire sits.
The Anonymous Widower 
Disingenuous the farm with have an installed capcity that is realisabke fir a few hours around midday for a few mths of the year. There will be 10s of GWs more doing the same thing when there is insufficient demand these need to have colocated batteries otherwise we will be wasting huge amounts of energy.
Comment by Nicholas Lewis | May 14, 2025 |
This is another development, that distributes its power through the substation at Drax.
It seems to me, that a battery with the capacity of around Highview Power’s standard size of 200 MW/2.5 GWh could be fitted in on the Drax site for starters.
Comment by AnonW | May 14, 2025 |