UK's largest solar farm to be built on Leicestershire airfield

Lark Energy has received planning permission to build Britain's largest solar power plant, topping out at a massive 35 megawatts.

The solar farm will be built on an old WW2 airfield named Wymeswold located in Leicestershire. It will consist of 125,000 photovoltaic panels, arranged carefully between the runways so that the site can still be used by its current occupiers -- a driving track and a kite club.

By: Duncan Geere,

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via Wired.co.uk



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