Zee Germans from ib vogt GmbH plan to install UK's largest Solar Panel Farm

As the title says, the nice Germans from ib vogt GmbH have a project for a huge solar panel farm in the United Kingdom, we're talking about a major investment, a 47MW solar farm at Newlands Farm between Fareham and Stubbington, Portsmouth.

This is as big as it gets, the idea behind the project is to power 14 000 homes per year with solar generated electricity, which in theory is carbon free, not that carbon is a bad thing folks.

Anyway, in the ib vogt's GMBH own words, as immortalized by Southern Daily Echo:

“If the proposal attained planning permission it would be the largest solar farm in the UK and the second largest in Europe, something of which we believe Fareham could rightly be proud. In addition to the environmental benefits, the scheme would deliver a number of economic benefits. Jobs would be created during the construction of the solar farm and some of the materials would be sourced from the UK. Ongoing employment opportunities would exist as the panels would need to be maintained and kept secure.”

The local community reacted with mixed emotions regarding the green project, this is what Sean Woodward, local councilor, told Portsmouth's gazette, The News :

"This is a shocking proposal that I am sure will be of great interest and concern to residents of Stubbington and south Fareham.

“It would represent the loss of a significant area of countryside which forms a strategic gap between South Fareham and Stubbington. There are many issues that the council as the local planning authority will need to take into account if a planning application is submitted next month including, but not limited to, the environmental impact – positive in terms of power generation and negative in terms of the presence of thousands of solar panels, public views across the site and agricultural land that would be lost from cultivation to name just a few.’

Even if the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) made an  Impact Assessment  which  suggests that 2013-2014 will not bring large scale solar parks investments ( by that I mean >5MW of power installed), the 47 MW project from the Germans is the biggest proposal so far on a market that gets bigger and more interesting year after year. Let's not forget that DECC announced that it will cut down the co-financing in solar energy projects to just 1.5 ROCS

 Currently, there are 120MW of approved projects in the solar energy business for 2012-2013.

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