A WOKINGHAM-based firm is looking to a bright future after securing permission to build a new solar farm.
Enviromena says the 90-acre site, in Bridgwater, Somerset, will produce enough power for 9,750 average-sized homes per year, and offset around 6,500 tonnes of carbon emissions.
The site, at Horsey Levels, uses 45,198 monocrystalline bifacial solar modules with a capacity of 24.18MWp and will generate 28,286MWhs of energy per annum.
This is the company’s second UK development to achieve planning permission in the past year, and is one of several solar PV developments sold to Blackfinch Energy, part of Blackfinch Group.
Environmena is based in Grazeley, and the firm’s chief executive, Cabell Fisher, said: “(Permission) follows in the wake of several other successful solar projects the Enviromena team has delivered in Europe in the last 12 months.
“Projects like this will be critical to support the UK Government’s recent initiatives to implement more renewable solutions on the national grid and to bring down the cost of energy for industry and consumers alike.
“We now look forward to harnessing this momentum and hope more of our PV projects will come through the planning system so we can continue to support the UK’s commitment to hit its renewable energy targets and to further Enviromena’s mission to help facilitate the transition to a world powered by clean energy by providing safe, affordable, and reliable clean energy solutions to its customers.”
This planning permission comes at a time when UK consumers’ energy prices have risen by 54% this year, and these prices should continue to rise for the foreseeable future due to the global unpredictability of supply now caused by the war in Ukraine.
It will also reduce dependence on imported fossil fuels which can have a higher carbon footprint than renewables and are susceptible to supply shocks and price volatility.
Enviromena says it is one of the UK’s largest clean energy solutions companies and has more than 1GW of active solar farms and battery energy storage systems in development and operation throughout Europe.
