UK: Road to be shut as power cable for 50MW solar farm installed (www.essexlive.news)

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The cable will run from the 49.9MW Willows Green Solar Farm near Felsted will the built mainly under roads for 5.3km east of the proposed solar farm to Braintree Substation near Galleys Corner.

At full capacity, 50MW is enough to power ~60,000 homes! That's enough for nearly 10% of all of Essex. Glad these are getting connected even though there's plenty of North Sea oil and gas. UK! UK! UK!

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[-] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago

How is a road closure in the UK world news?

[-] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

Absolutely! /s

TBH, the mods should change the sidebar from "News from around the world!" to something like "News that have international relevance".... otherwise we can't really scold people who post curiosity stories.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

I just wanna know how fat the cable is. Sounds like it is almost 3km in length.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Depends on how they're inverting the power. If they're sticking with the DC voltage straight from the panel, that's probably one thick cable. If each panel or group of panels has an inverter to go to high voltage (AC or DC) to a central location, you can proportionally scale the thickness as voltage increases.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

why are they measuring solar farms in swimming pools

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I thought the same thing! When posting, I wanted to give a sense of scale and took this screenshot

Ultimately, I settled on figuring how much of Essex that would cover.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I settled on figuring how much of Essex that would cover.

which is not that helpful in worldnews...

"for a 114 hectare solar farm east of School Lane"

Now I have an idea of the actual size.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

if ask me to take it down, i will.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Sorry, that was not my intention at all.

I would much prefer a world-news sub not be filled with the same stories (endless US/UK/EU politics etc) over and over again but rather have some interesting local stories from around the world.

I was just pointing out that adding some more generic descriptions would make it more readable to the rest of the world.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Take it down.

I have spoken!

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