Representation by Stephen Tompson
- Date submitted
- 17 March 2022
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Over 30 miles of security fencing will be put up around the sites No meaningful local employment - no local benefit. Would be built by Smith Brothers Ltd (Yorkshire) Countryside lost for over 2 generations There is no guarantee the land can be returned to it's former agricultural use after 40 years The scheme area will become a 'brownfield site' after the project ends, making it ripe for development 15 miles of cabling to take the electricity to a new 12m high substation extension that will be built at Burwell Around 77 acres of battery energy storage compounds (BESS), separated into 3 sites, all close to homes With an output of 500 MW, the Sunnica BESS would be the current largest in the world. Sunnica Ltd has no experience of building BESS on this scale Li-ion BESS catch fire. When they do they cannot be put out. The fire creates poisonous gases which can be lethal in tiny amounts. Below image depicts a recent Li-ion BESS fire in Australia The huge BESS allow Sunnica to buy cheap electricity out of the grid (from renewable and non renewable sources), store it in the BESS and sell it back to the grid when it is expensive. This creates huge profits for Sunnica's Spanish owners All of the greenfield land being taken by Sunnica is good quality irrigated vegetable growing farmland, which provides habitats for 100's of species We cannot afford to lose this land. The UK is only 64% self-sufficient in food Importing panels and batteries from China (known to use slave labour for some solar panel production), and the poor scheme design, means the scheme has a huge carbon footprint University analysis of the Sunnica scheme shows it cannot be 'green'. It will create more carbon in lifetime than it ever saves. Sunnica hinders our pursuit of Carbon Zero by 2050 If this industrial solar plant happens the value of our properties will be affected forever