The U.K. government has approved plans for the country’s largest solar park near the southern town of Faversham, in Kent, estimated to cost $550 million. To occupy 490 hectares of valued marshland, the projected 350 MW Cleve Hill park is opposed by local communities and environmental groups.
Planned by a joint team of Hive Energy Ltd. and Australia-based Wirsol Energy Ltd., the park’s solar panels will cover 176 ha of land and have 880,000 solar panels. Battery storage capacity of 700 MWh is apparently in planning with advice from Swiss-based Leclanché S.A.