Plans in for new £60m Rotherham solar energy park

August 16, 2022

A planning application for an innovative new renewable energy generation and storage project on agricultural land has been submitted to Rotherham Council.If approved, it would result in thousands of solar panels installed on green belt land.Rothbiz reported in June that independent renewable energy firm Banks Renewables was developing plans for a new solar energy park on a 116-hectare site to the west of the Todwick Road Industrial Estate in Dinnington, around three miles east of Banks’ Penny Hill wind farm at Ulley.The applicants admit that the development “will result in a limited number of adverse affects” but state that it will also generate a number of benefits.The Common Farm Solar project would have an installed capacity of up to 50MW. This compares to the capacity of up to 20MW at Penny Hill Wind Farm and 44MW at the Templeborough Biomass power station.Planning permission…