Banks to file plans for 50MW solar

• Common Farm project site additionally includes details of a 50MW co-located battery storage space project

Banks Renewables is establishing a preparation application for a 50MW solar project on a 116-hectare site near its Penny Hill wind farm in south Yorkshire.

The Common Farm solar project likewise consists of a 50MW battery power storage space system linking straight right into the Thurcroft electrical energy sub-station around 3 km to the north of the site.

As part of the firm's policy of providing concrete benefits to the areas in which its procedures are based, at least ₤ 50,000 of the profits produced by the Common Farm project would be made available annually as part of a bundle to support regional excellent reasons.

An in-depth ecology as well as biodiversity method is also being established to make sure the site supplies a net advantage in biodiversity to the local community.

Banks Renewables is expecting to submit a planning application to Rotherham Council for the new plan in the coming months, with a view to it being figured out before the end of the year.

The Penny Hill wind farm, the Hook Moor wind farm to the east of Leeds, the Marr wind farm to the west of Doncaster as well as the Hazlehead wind farm near Barnsley created nearly 89,000 MWh of electrical power between them over the year throughout of September 2021.

Banks Renewables is likewise currently creating the Barnsdale solar power park to the south east of Leeds.

Lewis Stokes, elderly community relations manager at Banks Group, claimed: "Maximising the manufacturing of renewable resource from domestic sources is a critical part of the UK's recurring journey towards its Net Zero targets, particularly within the existing energy safety and security climate, and also the Common Farm solar scheme will certainly better prolong the contribution that we have the ability to make locally in the direction of reaching these goals.

" The project is located in a location that we understand extremely well, as well as having actually conducted a thorough search, we identified this site as providing the best opportunity to produce a solar park that links directly into the Thurcroft substation."