Development Benefits
Generation of renewable energy for the equivalent of over 14,000 homes and displace approximately 6,471 tonnes of CO2 per annum.
Helping to meet the UK’s binding targets and national and local government policy objectives on tackling climate change and biodiversity improvement.
1km of new or improved hedgerows, approx.2.9 hectares of wildflower grassland, 2 new ponds and over 100 bird and bat nesting/ hibernation boxes are among the main features of the biodiversity improvement works included in the project.
These combined produce a conservative uplift in the biodiversity ‘credits’ for the site of 12.67% (which exceeds the 10% mandatory minimum uplift).
Local economic benefits both in terms of its construction and operation, generating jobs for installation, maintenance and its eventual remediation.
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have increased by about 45% since the Industrial Revolution. Other greenhouse gases have increased by similarly large amounts. It is widely accepted that this increase in greenhouse gases is almost entirely due to human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels.
The 2016 Paris Climate Agreement marked the latest step in the development of the UN regime on climate change. Its central objective is to keep the increase in global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to aim to limit the increase to 1.5°C.
Broadland Council has declared a climate change crisis. By 2035 the UK is committed to achieving 100% electrical generation from renewable energy. To address the threat to national energy security each part of the UK needs to play its role in the rapid transition away from fossil fuels.
