Banks Renewables' Leeds solar farm starts ahead

• A new solar farm readied to have actually an installed capability of up to 50MW has been accepted by Leeds City Council.

The Barnsdale solar power park is being developed by Banks Renewables and is to be located in between Kippax and Allerton Bywater. It will certainly include solar panels covering an area of around 50 hectares of south-facing land as well as will certainly be connected directly right into the Ledston Key electrical power substation which rests to the south east of the site.

Work with the site is expected to begin early following year, with an ecology as well as biodiversity method to likewise be applied that will include wildflower meadows, wetland environment, native trees, scrub and also hedgerow growing.

Over ₤ 800,000 of the incomes generated by the solar farm over its lifetime will be directed into an area fund to give grants to support neighborhood groups and also voluntary organisations.

Lewis Stokes, neighborhood connections manager at The Banks Group, stated: "This project lies in the only website in Leeds suitable for this size as well as range of solar power advancement, and notes the most up to date phase of our continuing investment in Yorkshire, which has consisted of the growth of 4 onshore wind farms across the county, a number of house schemes and also the opening of a brand-new workplace to the north of Leeds simply in 2015."

The authorization by Leeds City Council complies with the application entering front of the planning committee on 10 June, having actually been recommended for authorization earlier this month.