The solar array will have 75 hectare and will be built on the land between Barton and Beckley, the project will be supervised by one of the United Kingdom's most important environmental consultancies, the well known ADAS, with the headquarters in Wolverhamtpon.
Even if a formal planning application is still missing in action, the pre-proposal documents had been drafted to the local authorities from South Oxfordshire District Council, and after taking a closer look, they revealed the detailed plans to instal the 50.600 solar panels all over the area. ADAS estimated that the solar farm will generate enough power to provide for over 3000 households.
As usual, not everybody was happy with the new high tech solution for providing clean energy to people's homes, the locals affiliated to the Campaign to Protect Rural England had to object, as Mr. Michael Tyce, from CPRE Oxfordshire told us:
"Oxford is surrounded by hills so even if the panels aren’t very high and could be disguised by bushes and trees it would be seen from all around from higher ground.
“The Oxford green belt is there to preserve the openness of the countryside, and you are not doing this when you cover it in panels. However you try to dress this up, it is a power station. An industrial project like this is unacceptable.”
Anyway, the local residents, despite the Campaign to Protect Rural England objections, responded pretty well to the idea of building the huge solar farm in their vicinity, as the local media covered the issue, stating that the public response was overwhelmingly positive.
This local project came as a consequence of he Department of Energy and Climate Change’s announcement from the last year, regarding the Renewable Obligation support levels for solar in the future. You must keep in mind that the available RO rate for ground-mounted solar projects is due to drop from 2ROCs to 1.6ROCs on April 1, 2013, the rate was raised after the industry complained that the initial plan of dropping the RO rate to 1.5 ROCs would kill many businesses.
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