Plans to cowl a subject in rural south Norfolk with giant industrial batteries to retailer vitality from wind farms have been given the inexperienced gentle by councillors.
The power, which will probably be constructed on a 35-acre website in Swardeston, will probably be linked to generators within the North Sea.
It’s going to retailer vitality that may be fed into the Nationwide Grid on calm days when the generators usually are not spinning.
At a gathering of South Norfolk Council discussing the plans, native residents raised issues that the batteries had been a fireplace threat.
Nonetheless, a consultant from Ørsted – the corporate behind the Hornsea Three offshore wind farm – stated: “It isn’t in anybody’s curiosity, least of all of the candidates, to have an incident on this website.
“I labored carefully with [Norfolk] the hearth and rescue service and have included the measures which were raised from these discussions.”
Councilors on Wednesday’s improvement committee sided with the developer and unanimously authorised the scheme.
Praising the scheme, unbiased councilor Clayton Hudson stated: “The race to decarbonise our economic system and safe long-term vitality provide is paramount.
“I can’t be accountable for turning off the lights in south Norfolk or delaying the decarbonisation of our economic system.”
