A recent planning committee where one of my client’s solar farms was up for determination was dominated by fierce local opposition. One committee member who couldn’t be present for the debate had sent in written statement supporting the local objectors. In that statement he wrote, “the overriding consideration (in the determination of the planning application) must surely be the will of the local residents”.

As work gets underway this week on another >10MW ground-mount solar farm in Wales – as part of the pre-April 2014 mud-drenched UK solar PV bonanza – how far can things go, in terms of project size?

This article does a quick scan through some of the largest UK installations over the past fifteen years, and then asks: how big for 2014? And is the quest for super-sizing everything all good?
Finlay Colville
Finlay Colville

NPD Solarbuzz, Vice President

Finlay Colville is Vice President of Solarbuzz. Read more about Finlay Colville →