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Legal action launched against ‘rip-off’ secret commissions on UK firms’ energy bills

Some solar farms 'will never see light of day', minister says, amid backlash to Lincolnshire plans

Some solar farms 'will never see light of day', minister says, amid backlash to Lincolnshire plans

  Thousands of small businesses sue for return of brokers’ fees that often go undisclosed in billing 

 Businesses across the UK have been forced  to pay an extra 10% on average for their gas and electricity because  suppliers routinely add third-party broker commissions to their bills,  according to a leading litigation law firm. 

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Some solar farms 'will never see light of day', minister says, amid backlash to Lincolnshire plans

Some solar farms 'will never see light of day', minister says, amid backlash to Lincolnshire plans

Some solar farms 'will never see light of day', minister says, amid backlash to Lincolnshire plans

  A government minister has said that far more applications have been made for solar farms than the country will ever need. Graham   Stuart, the energy minister, made the remark after being asked about   concerns over recent plans for solar farms, including in North   Lincolnshire. "An awful lot of the projects, talking nationally, will   never see the light of day," he added.

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Residents launch campaign to save heritage villages from vast One Earth Solar Farm plans

Residents launch campaign to save heritage villages from vast One Earth Solar Farm plans

Residents launch campaign to save heritage villages from vast One Earth Solar Farm plans

Plans for a vast solar farm have prompted  residents from three  villages to take action in a bid to prevent the  ancient parishes from  being ‘engulfed’.

One  Earth Solar Farm, which is in the early  stages of planning, is a  proposed solar farm with associated battery  storage, on land  surrounding North Clifton, South Clifton, Fledborough  and Ragnall.  


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Harnessing North Sea power for net zero future with provisional green light

Residents launch campaign to save heritage villages from vast One Earth Solar Farm plans

Residents launch campaign to save heritage villages from vast One Earth Solar Farm plans

 Britain’s energy regulator Office of Gas and Electricity Markets  (Ofgem) has recommended for approval plans for two high-voltage subsea  cable links to Europe, which have the potential to power millions of  homes, making use of the green power in the North Sea and boosting  import and export capacity for clean energy. 

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Solar PV industry caught up in China forced-labour controversy

'Our old way of life will be gone forever': The tenant farmers targeted by solar developers

Solar PV industry caught up in China forced-labour controversy

 Political momentum is swaying in favour of European solar panel  manufacturers, as work progresses on a new EU law banning forced labour  practices that would effectively block Chinese imports. 


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Abandoned coal mines providing cheaper, clean energy for homes

'Our old way of life will be gone forever': The tenant farmers targeted by solar developers

Solar PV industry caught up in China forced-labour controversy

   Mines are keeping 350 homes in Gateshead warm once again but now without burning a single lump of coal. Water in flooded shafts and tunnels, heated by the Earth's crust,  promises a green revolution, with around six million households close to  former pits. 


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'Our old way of life will be gone forever': The tenant farmers targeted by solar developers

'Our old way of life will be gone forever': The tenant farmers targeted by solar developers

'Our old way of life will be gone forever': The tenant farmers targeted by solar developers

  Productive farmland is targeted by solar developers, leaving farmers like Andrew Dakin with little say.  "Our old way of life will be gone forever. And I've worked on this farm  all my life, seven days a week. I've not been on holiday since I was 15.  Not because I didn't want to, but I like being here on the farm." 


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Ørsted suspends dividend, cuts jobs and exits offshore wind markets

Prime Minister will 'not allow great swathes' of Lincolnshire countryside to be occupied by solar panels

Lincolnshire at risk of becoming solar 'dumping ground' as 14 farm applications progress

 Ørsted has suspended its dividend and slashed targets for developing  renewables as the world’s largest offshore wind developer plots a  recovery following a calamitous 12 months.  


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Lincolnshire at risk of becoming solar 'dumping ground' as 14 farm applications progress

Prime Minister will 'not allow great swathes' of Lincolnshire countryside to be occupied by solar panels

Lincolnshire at risk of becoming solar 'dumping ground' as 14 farm applications progress

 Fears that Lincolnshire could become a "dumping ground" for solar farms are growing after 14 applications were submitted over the past year. Councillors are concerned these projects could have a significant impact on the county's agricultural sector and have called for the number of renewable energy schemes on farmland to be limited.  


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Prime Minister will 'not allow great swathes' of Lincolnshire countryside to be occupied by solar panels

Prime Minister will 'not allow great swathes' of Lincolnshire countryside to be occupied by solar panels

Prime Minister will 'not allow great swathes' of Lincolnshire countryside to be occupied by solar panels

  Dr Caroline Johnson met with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to convey concerns from her constituents  regarding the scale of current large solar farm proposals.


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UK seals £160m nuclear site deal

Europe’s solar industry warns against tariffs on imports

Europe’s solar industry warns against tariffs on imports

 The UK Government has announced the purchase of the Wylfa and Oldbury nuclear sites from Hitachi for £160 million.  The deal, revealed during the Budget, has been met with anticipation from industry insiders and stakeholders. 

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Europe’s solar industry warns against tariffs on imports

Europe’s solar industry warns against tariffs on imports

Europe’s solar industry warns against tariffs on imports

 Europe’s solar power industry has warned policymakers not to impose  tariffs on imports, amid fears that disrupting supplies of products from  China would seriously damage Europe’s ability to rapidly install clean  energy. 


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UK exits Energy Charter Treaty

Europe’s solar industry warns against tariffs on imports

UK exits Energy Charter Treaty

  The UK has announced its departure from the Energy Charter Treaty after unsuccessful attempts to align it with net zero goals.  The UK has officially withdrawn from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), a decision announced by Energy Security and Net Zero Minister Graham Stuart. 

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Italy expands Europe’s first solar ‘gigafactory’

EU Commission launches industry alliance for ‘made in Europe’ solar PV

Europe’s solar industry warns against tariffs on imports

   Italy’s energy utility Enel inaugurated its expanded 3Sun solar panel  manufacturing facility in Sicily, making it the biggest factory in  Europe, officials said. 

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Europe’s solar industry warns against tariffs on imports

EU Commission launches industry alliance for ‘made in Europe’ solar PV

Europe’s solar industry warns against tariffs on imports

 Europe’s solar power industry has warned policymakers not to impose  tariffs on imports, amid fears that disrupting supplies of products from  China would seriously damage Europe’s ability to rapidly install clean  energy. 


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EU Commission launches industry alliance for ‘made in Europe’ solar PV

EU Commission launches industry alliance for ‘made in Europe’ solar PV

EU Commission launches industry alliance for ‘made in Europe’ solar PV

  The European Commission on Friday (9 December) officially launched the  EU’s solar photovoltaic industry alliance, with the aim of regaining  production lost to China and establishing a “Made in Europe” industry. 

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Battery safety plan for Cleve Hill Solar Park in Graveney, between Faversham and Whitstable, rejected

Battery safety plan for Cleve Hill Solar Park in Graveney, between Faversham and Whitstable, rejected

Battery safety plan for Cleve Hill Solar Park in Graveney, between Faversham and Whitstable, rejected

  A battery safety plan for what is set to be the UK’s biggest solar farm has been rejected. Councillors  voted down the proposals after almost four hours of debate and despite  warnings of a “high risk there will be costs” to the council for  rejecting them.  The safety plan has faced intense local opposition, with more than 100  Swale residents writing in to the council to criticise the proposals. 


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Hatton solar farm: Campaigners to fight on after plans quashed by High Court

Battery safety plan for Cleve Hill Solar Park in Graveney, between Faversham and Whitstable, rejected

Battery safety plan for Cleve Hill Solar Park in Graveney, between Faversham and Whitstable, rejected

 Campaigners have said their "fight is not over" after a plan for a solar farm near Horncastle was quashed.  Push  Energy's proposals for land adjacent to Sotby Woods on Sturton Road, in  Hatton, were approved by East Lindsey District Council last year.

But  people living in the area fiercely opposed it and, following a judicial  review, a High Court judge said the council's approval was "unlawful".


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Decision on £600m Sunnica Energy Farm delayed until April

Battery safety plan for Cleve Hill Solar Park in Graveney, between Faversham and Whitstable, rejected

Decision on £600m Sunnica Energy Farm delayed until April

  The government has delayed a decision on a controversial £600m solar farm for a third time. 

The proposed Sunnica Energy Farm on the Suffolk-Cambridgeshire border would span about 2,500 acres across both counties. Claire Coutinho, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, set a new decision deadline "of no later than 11 April 2024".  


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Solar farm approval was unlawful, judge says

Plans for huge Coventry solar farm rejected amid concerns

Solar farm gets go-ahead despite council objection

 Campaigners are celebrating after a High Court judge said a council's approval of plans for a solar farm was unlawful. Approved  by Durham County Council, Lightsource bp's contentious plans to  transform a 92-hectare site near Burnhope into a huge solar farm are  fiercely opposed by residents.


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Solar farm gets go-ahead despite council objection

Plans for huge Coventry solar farm rejected amid concerns

Solar farm gets go-ahead despite council objection

 A solar farm the size of  about 33 football pitches has been given the go-ahead on green belt  farmland despite being rejected by councillors. 

Shropshire Council had declined planning permission for the site off Hall Lane, Kemberton, near Telford.


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Plans for huge Coventry solar farm rejected amid concerns

Plans for huge Coventry solar farm rejected amid concerns

Plans for huge Coventry solar farm rejected amid concerns

    Plans for a large solar farm that would have powered 7,650 homes in Coventry have been rejected after opposition from residents.

More than 60,000 solar panels would have been installed on greenbelt farmland in the north of the city as part of the proposals.


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Rishi Sunak facing test of solar pledge as he is urged to reject huge energy farm.

Rishi Sunak facing test of solar pledge as he is urged to reject huge energy farm.

Rishi Sunak facing test of solar pledge as he is urged to reject huge energy farm.

 Rishi Sunak has been urged to stick to a pledge to avoid building solar  farms on agricultural land as a huge energy farm is considered for land in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.  If approved, the project from Sunnica, an energy company, could create a Cabinet clash, with Lucy Frazer, the new Culture Secretary, vehemently opposing the development in her South East Cambridgeshire constituency.  


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How ‘green lairds’ are ousting Britain’s traditional food producers

Rishi Sunak facing test of solar pledge as he is urged to reject huge energy farm.

Rishi Sunak facing test of solar pledge as he is urged to reject huge energy farm.

 UK farm land is being lost to solar panels, wind turbines, new housing  and rewilding, leaving tenant farmers facing a ‘perfect storm'. Wind turbines and solar farms are taking up land previously occupied by food-producing farmers  


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The American revolt against green energy has begun

Rishi Sunak facing test of solar pledge as he is urged to reject huge energy farm.

The American revolt against green energy has begun

    There’s no such thing as a wind or solar ‘farm’, just an ugly industrial site. In a story filled with all the standard climate alarmist narratives, USA Today recently reported on the rising movement by local governments in the United States to refuse to permit unwanted wind and solar industrial sites in their jurisdictions. 


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Energy security strategy: worryingly vague, worryingly long-term

Energy security strategy: worryingly vague, worryingly long-term

Energy security strategy: worryingly vague, worryingly long-term

 The Government claims that its British Energy Security Strategy will  increase the number of clean jobs in the UK by supporting around 112,000  additional jobs in renewable generation and hydrogen by the end of the  decade. 


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UK onshore wind hits 15GW milestone

Energy security strategy: worryingly vague, worryingly long-term

Energy security strategy: worryingly vague, worryingly long-term

 The UK has surpassed 15GW of onshore wind capacity, enough to power nearly ten million homes annually.  With 30.1MW capacity and seven turbines, this project contributes to the  UK’s total onshore wind capacity of 15.002GW spread across 2,631  projects. 


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Desertec abandons Sahara solar power export dream

Energy security strategy: worryingly vague, worryingly long-term

Desertec abandons Sahara solar power export dream

   The Desertec Industrial Initiative (Dii) has abandoned its strategy to  export solar power generated from the Sahara to Europe, killing hopes of  boosting the continent’s share of renewable electricity with cheap  external supplies. 


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Record year for wind farms raises hope for EU green energy goals

Prospect of more subsea links to mainland raised as SSE looks to the future

Record year for wind farms raises hope for EU green energy goals

 A record year for building new wind farms and a rebound in investments  in the sector have raised hopes that the EU may achieve its clean energy  targets, industry group WindEurope said on Wednesday.  In an annual report, WindEurope described 2023 as a year of "significant  improvements" in key areas of Europe's wind energy sector, which  struggled in 2022. 

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Cleve Hill solar farm battery storage application rejected

Prospect of more subsea links to mainland raised as SSE looks to the future

Record year for wind farms raises hope for EU green energy goals

An application for battery storage units at the UK's biggest solar farm has been refused.

Cleve Hill Solar Park, at Graveney, in Kent, was given government approval in May 2020.  The plans require a 150-megawatt battery facility over 25 acres to store energy generated by 880,000 solar panels. 


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Prospect of more subsea links to mainland raised as SSE looks to the future

Prospect of more subsea links to mainland raised as SSE looks to the future

Prospect of more subsea links to mainland raised as SSE looks to the future

 SSEN has raised the possibility of more subsea cables being built  to link Shetland to the UK mainland as a result of anticipated energy  production and demand.

A 600MW HVDC transmission link has  already been laid by the company between Shetland and Caithness ahead of  the Viking Energy wind farm going live later this year.


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National Grid reveals shortlisted locations for interconnector

National Grid reveals shortlisted locations for interconnector

National Grid reveals shortlisted locations for interconnector

 National Grid has unveiled the selected locations for its new green  energy link to the Netherlands, including landfall, cable route and  converter station sites.

 The project aims to connect Suffolk to the Netherlands and a Dutch offshore wind farm, facilitating the sharing of 1.8GW of green energy. 

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Record negative electricity prices hit Britain

National Grid reveals shortlisted locations for interconnector

National Grid reveals shortlisted locations for interconnector

 Britain endured a record 214 hours of negative electricity prices in 2023, according to a report. 

Britain experienced 214 hours of negative power prices in 2023, according to Imperial College London’s Electric Insights report. 


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UK should aim for 27GW of wave energy

National Grid reveals shortlisted locations for interconnector

UK should aim for 27GW of wave energy

 The UK should target installing 27GW of wave energy by 2050 for an efficient net zero energy system, according to a new report.  A recent study from LUT University Finland proposes that the UK should  set a goal of achieving 27GW of wave energy by 2050 to optimise its net zero energy aspirations. 

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Scottish wind farm fined £5.5m for inflating prices

150MW Cleve Hill BESS project rejected by local authority

150MW Cleve Hill BESS project rejected by local authority

 A Scottish wind farm operator has been ordered to pay a £5.5m fine for  overcharging the National Grid to switch off turbines at peak times.  Dorenell Wind Farm in Scotland’s Highlands was found to have charged “excessive prices” when asked to reduce its power output on multiple occasions since 2020. 

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150MW Cleve Hill BESS project rejected by local authority

150MW Cleve Hill BESS project rejected by local authority

150MW Cleve Hill BESS project rejected by local authority

 A 150MW battery energy storage system (BESS), to be deployed along with  373MW of solar PV as part of the Cleve Hill Solar Park project, has  reportedly been rejected by the local planning authority in the UK.  


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Ørsted Greenlights 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 Offshore Wind Farm

150MW Cleve Hill BESS project rejected by local authority

Ørsted Greenlights 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 Offshore Wind Farm

 Ørsted has taken the final investment decision (FID) on what the  company says is the world’s single largest offshore wind farm, the 2.9  GW Hornsea 3, which is expected to be completed around the end of 2027.  

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Firefighters called to solar farm with National Grid on scene

World record: Wind turbine generates enough energy in a day to power 170,000 home

A series of 28 consecutive battery fires that occurred in South Korea

 

Firefighters have been called today (Saturday) to an incident at a  solar farm in Burton Pedwardine.  Crews were dispatched from Sleaford to a transformer smoking  on a solar farm on Asgarby Road. People in the area have since been  asked to keep all windows and doors closed due to smoke.

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A series of 28 consecutive battery fires that occurred in South Korea

World record: Wind turbine generates enough energy in a day to power 170,000 home

A series of 28 consecutive battery fires that occurred in South Korea

  A series of fires that occurred between 2017 and 2019 brought  South  Korea’s energy storage market to a standstill. New research seeks  now to  shed light on all the causes of the accidents and analyzes  several  social factors that may have led to the continuous occurrence  of the  accidents.  


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World record: Wind turbine generates enough energy in a day to power 170,000 home

World record: Wind turbine generates enough energy in a day to power 170,000 home

World record: Wind turbine generates enough energy in a day to power 170,000 home

 The world’s largest wind turbine has smashed the record for the most power produced by a single turbine in a day.

Offshore from Fujian Province, China, the giant Goldwind GWH252-16MW towers above the sea.

On 1 September, the mammoth turbine - which has a 252-metre diameter - produced 384.1 megawatt hours (MWh) in 24 hours.

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Rishi Sunak plans to restrict the installation of solar panels on swathes of British farmland

Rishi Sunak plans to restrict the installation of solar panels on swathes of British farmland

Rishi Sunak plans to restrict the installation of solar panels on swathes of British farmland

Solar panels in the countryside are disliked by many rural Conservative MPs, and the Observer can reveal that Sunak and environment secretary Thérèse Coffey have revived plans to put new restrictions on this form of cheap renewable energy.

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Huge solar farm on greenfield North Hampshire land refused

Rishi Sunak plans to restrict the installation of solar panels on swathes of British farmland

Rishi Sunak plans to restrict the installation of solar panels on swathes of British farmland

Plans for a large solar farm in North Yorkshire have been rejected following hundreds of objections.

If given the go-ahead, the development, near Malton, would have provided energy for 8,660 homes, Harmony Energy said.


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Millions of Solar Panel destined for land-fill

Rishi Sunak plans to restrict the installation of solar panels on swathes of British farmland

Millions of Solar Panel destined for land-fill

As the first generation of solar panels are expected to die off in the coming years, experts have warned that many could end up in landfill rather than recycled because of a drastic lack of infrastructure. 

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Offshore wind price hike set to revive UK decarbonisation goal

Offshore wind price hike set to revive UK decarbonisation goal

Offshore wind price hike set to revive UK decarbonisation goal

 The UK's round 6 renewable energy auction next month offers a price cap  of 73 pounds/MWh for offshore wind developers after the government  increased the price by 66% following no eligible bids in last year's  auction.  A higher UK price cap is expected to spur competitive bidding in next month’s crucial offshore wind auction. 

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Orsted's strategic shake-up has investors worried

Offshore wind price hike set to revive UK decarbonisation goal

Offshore wind price hike set to revive UK decarbonisation goal

 Orsted (ORSTED.CO), opens new tab is expected to trim investment plans and cut dividends on Wednesday as  it presents a new strategy but investors are worried that the Danish  renewable energy firm may want to raise new capital to stick to its  ambitious targets. 

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German utilities plan to bid for new power station capacity

Offshore wind price hike set to revive UK decarbonisation goal

German utilities plan to bid for new power station capacity

 Germany's government has announced that it will tender for 10 gigawatts (GW) of new gas-fired power station capacity that must be ready to switch to  clean hydrogen in the future transition away from polluting fossil  fuels. 


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Solar farms and rewilding ‘could harm UK food security’

'Tidal wave' of new solar farms will ruin the countryside, say campaigners

'Tidal wave' of new solar farms will ruin the countryside, say campaigners

Sir Robert Goodwill says farmers face ‘perfect storm’ and urges Government to look at whether more food can be produced domestically.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has thrown food security into sharp focus, with experts warning that Britain is increasingly vulnerable to volatile prices and one global shock away from a food crisis.

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'Tidal wave' of new solar farms will ruin the countryside, say campaigners

'Tidal wave' of new solar farms will ruin the countryside, say campaigners

'Tidal wave' of new solar farms will ruin the countryside, say campaigners

Countryside campaigners have warned that swathes of rural southern England face being ruined by “massive industrialisation” with plans for one of the country’s largest solar farms given the go-ahead.

The approval of plans for a large solar power plant in Oxfordshire has sparked fears of a “tidal wave of solar farms” despoiling rural areas.

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Public Revolt on net zero

'Tidal wave' of new solar farms will ruin the countryside, say campaigners

Public Revolt on net zero

ANDREW NEIL: Everywhere, there's a growing public revolt against net zero, forcing politicians across Europe to renege on green virtue signalling.

 The headlong rush to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, pursued for so  long by democratic governments across the globe regardless of cost, has  finally hit the buffers of voter resistance. 


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Sleaford MP demands action to halt spread of solar farms

Lincolnshire dumping ground for green energy schemes councillor claims

Lincolnshire dumping ground for green energy schemes councillor claims

Dr Johnson said rural areas had been "plagued" by plans and villages would be surrounded by a "sea" of panels.

She urged the government to reconsider whether it should decide on 50MW-plus schemes instead of local councils, which consider smaller-scale projects.


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Lincolnshire dumping ground for green energy schemes councillor claims

Lincolnshire dumping ground for green energy schemes councillor claims

Lincolnshire dumping ground for green energy schemes councillor claims

A councillor has claimed Lincolnshire is being used as a dumping ground for green energy projects that benefit other parts of the country.

Conservative county councillor Colin Davie said the interests of local people should be put first.

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Solar farms plans 'catastrophic' - council boss

Lincolnshire dumping ground for green energy schemes councillor claims

Solar farms plans 'catastrophic' - council boss

Planned large-scale solar farms in Lincolnshire would have "a catastrophic" impact on communities, a council leader has warned.

Four sites have been proposed for West Lindsey, with two crossing into neighbouring parts of Nottinghamshire.

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