ABP gets green light for 'UK's largest' floating solar farm

Michael Holder
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The floating solar farm is earmarked for Cavendish Dock, Barrow | Credit: ABP
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The floating solar farm is earmarked for Cavendish Dock, Barrow | Credit: ABP

Barrow Energy Dock project set to see 14,000 floating solar panels deployed across around a third of the surface water area at Cavendish Dock

Plans to install tens of thousands of floating solar panels at an industrial dock on the north west coast of England have been given the green light by Westmorland and Furness Council, with the project...

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