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Another grid-scale battery storage project has received planning consent - this one in Wales. Wonder if it's got a grid connection approved too?

https://renews.biz/96098/boom-power-win ... h-battery/

Good to see more batteries being installed though the choice of company name is probably not the best especially if there are some nervous neighbours to the installation.

Up near the decommissioning Wylfa nuclear power station and next to a large new solar farm and some wind farms, I believe the solar farm might be by the same company.

Moxi

Fintray wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 6:12 pm Good to see more batteries being installed though the choice of company name is probably not the best especially if there are some nervous neighbours to the installation.

It's OK, the Welsh word 'boom' can mean hold, or nice.

So it sorta works as good storage!


[On an unrelated subject, I've recently been selling some bridges, and I have one left over at a discount if anyone is interested?]

Mart wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2024 9:34 am

Fintray wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 6:12 pm Good to see more batteries being installed though the choice of company name is probably not the best especially if there are some nervous neighbours to the installation.

It's OK, the Welsh word 'boom' can mean hold, or nice.

So it sorta works as good storage!


[On an unrelated subject, I've recently been selling some bridges, and I have one left over at a discount if anyone is interested?]

Clifton suspension, Tower or Forth rail perhaps?

Moxi wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 9:04 pm Up near the decommissioning Wylfa nuclear power station and next to a large new solar farm and some wind farms, I believe the solar farm might be by the same company.

Moxi

They are planning a solar farm near me, some 3000+ acres, which to be honest I'm not happy about at all. That's like an area 2.25miles by 2.25 miles!! They should be on roofs not farm land.

Tinbum wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2024 10:40 am

Moxi wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 9:04 pm Up near the decommissioning Wylfa nuclear power station and next to a large new solar farm and some wind farms, I believe the solar farm might be by the same company.

Moxi

They are planning a solar farm near me, some 3000+ acres, which to be honest I'm not happy about at all. That's like an area 2.25miles by 2.25 miles!! They should be on roofs not farm land.

Up here the panels are raised to let the sheep graze under them as usual, got to agree though, if its good quality land suitable for crops then solar should be mounted so that the land can still be cropped.

Moxi

Moxi wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2024 3:36 pm Up here the panels are raised to let the sheep graze under them as usual, got to agree though, if its good quality land suitable for crops then solar should be mounted so that the land can still be cropped.
Moxi

Not many sheep round here all crops.

Its a bit of a blank page in the UK for solar mount systems above good agricultural land as yet, there was a good article about a French system (John S posted maybe ? apologies if A N Other) which used wire rope festoon's to string and orient panels above crops. Maybe easier in the UK to mount along the field boundaries ? leaving the fields clear and giving them some wind protection at the same time? Otherwise mobile systems that can be towed in to place when the field is fallow - less sure of this as good land is often intensively farmed and even if not the fallow season usually coincides with the winter months doesn't it ?

I still think the market garden side of the industry with all the green house glass could benefit by using solar panels - that would be a significant acreage with no determent to the core agricultural business, and easy to install.

Moxi