Plans are in the works for a solar farm the size of 78 football pitches on farmland near a Kent village. Green energy firm Renewable Connections Ltd has announced it is “investigating the potential for a solar farm” and energy storage facility on fields north of Tyler Hill, near Canterbury. Proposed for eight agricultural fields near the village, the site could cover 56 hectares of land. Britton Court Solar Farm’s webpage says it would produce 38 Megawatts (MW) of power, equivalent to the “annual energy needs of up to 15,164 homes”. Solar farms of 50MW or more are treated as “Nationally Signif…
