Welcome
Welcome to our proposals for a new solar farm in Ware.
The new solar farm would be developed on a site to the north west of the GSK campus connecting to a proposed ‘buried in the ground’ wired connection to provide GSK with a clean, green energy supply.
The proposals will deliver a range of benefits:
- Generating up to 24 MWp of renewable energy
- Reducing reliance on the grid
- Meeting around 32% of GSK Ware’s energy consumption, equivalent to 6,350 homes
- Supporting national and local renewable energy targets
- Community Benefit Fund providing £15,000 per annum for local projects (equating to £600,000 over the lifetime of the solar farm)
- Supporting national and local renewable energy targets
- Enhanced biodiversity across the solar farm site, including opportunity for new hedges, upgrading existing hedges, native tree planting, grassland creation, bird and bat boxes, and other biodiversity enhancements
- Continued agricultural use of the land for sheep grazing, alongside the solar farm
- Helping East Hertfordshire to meet its July 2023 climate declaration
Click here to explore our full proposals.
In you would like to help GSK Ware to significantly reduce its carbon footprint and improve the local sustainable energy supply, make your voice heard by contacting your representatives at East Hertfordshire District Council via the form below:
