Tai Moelion Farm, located on the Bodorgan Estate close to Aberffraw on Anglesey may be having a huge solar panel park installed covering an area of 28 football pitches if planning approval is granted with the planning committee for Anglesey meeting imminently to discuss the case.
Solar panels
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Even with solar panels in situ the sheep will still be permitted to graze the land meaning that they will keep the grass level down reducing maintenance costs. This installation, that would be set up by Modorgan Environmental Management Ltd, would be greater than two others put together that have been approved at St Florence, close to Tenby and Clawddcam, Mathry in Pembrokeshire. Collectively, these later two sites made up of 55,680 solar panels would generate 12.5MW of electricity.
Modorgan Environmental Management Ltd expect the 64,000 solar panels that would be installed at Tai Moelion Farm to produce 15 megawatts of electricity that is sufficient to provide power to 4,500 houses in a year. Connection to the national grid would be by way of the utilisation of overhead power cables that are already in place. It is estimated that the installation would only take in the region of three months to complete.
Apparently, there are objections to wind turbines being installed on the island so it will be interesting to see if there are any objections to solar panels being installed on the farm that is presently being utilised for grazing sheep, cattle and silage.
Bryan Owen who is the leader of Anglesey council made reference to the fact that this farm project would be the first of its kind on Anglesey and supports its efforts to be branded an “energy island”. The island wants to be heavily involved in the research and development of solar, biomass, tidal, wind and nuclear energy.
Mr Owen stated: “It’s a mix that we’re looking for. We’ve got wind, solar, bio-mass, nuclear, and off-shore.
“We don’t want to throw all our eggs into one basket, that is, nuclear or wind turbines.”
We await further developments.
