Government green lights UK's second largest solar farm

Stuart Stone
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One Earth Solar Farm becomes the 30th nationally significant clean energy project to be approved by the government since July 2024

The government has this week granted a development consent order to the One Earth Solar Farm in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, which is set to become the UK's second largest solar farm when it begins...

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