Fosse Green Energy Limited launches its second consultation

Mon Oct 21 2024

• The second consultation, which is a statutory consultation, on Fosse Green Energy’s solar and energy storage proposals in Lincolnshire launches on 21 October 2024 and runs until 2 December 2024.
• The solar and energy storage park would generate, export and import electricity.
• Plans include areas for landscaping and biodiversity enhancement.
• Fosse Green Energy Limited will be running live and virtual consultation events and is asking for feedback to help finalise the project’s design.

Fosse Green Energy Limited, a partnership between Windel Energy and Recurrent Energy, is holding a statutory consultation for Fosse Green Energy, which would be located south west of Lincoln, in North Kesteven. The Project would export and import electricity to the national electricity transmission network.

Fosse Green Energy includes ground-mounted solar panels, battery storage, onsite substations and other associated infrastructure. The project also includes an underground cable connection to the proposed new National Grid Substation near Navenby. The proposed Navenby Substation is subject to a separate planning application put forward by National Grid.

The consultation follows an initial non-statutory consultation held in Autumn 2023 where Fosse Green Energy Limited presented a preliminary study area and two grid connection corridor options. Fosse Green Energy Limited has carefully listened to feedback from the local community, has carried out further studies and is now consulting on updated plans.

Proposals include new benefits that the project could bring to local communities. This includes creating permissive paths which would link to Public Rights of Ways connecting local villages, planting community orchards and enhancing biodiversity across the site.

There are also plans to set up a community liaison group in the months following the consultation. As part of this, local community representatives will be invited to engage and discuss how Fosse Green Energy can best support the communities we are near to.

This statutory consultation is running from 21 October to 23:59 on 2 December 2024. People can provide feedback by email at info@fossegreenenergy.co.uk, via freepost at FREEPOST FOSSE GREEN ENERGY, or by contacting the community relations team (Mon – Fri, 9am - 5pm) at 0800 860 6262.

Lloyd Sandles, Projects Director at Windel Energy said:

“The feedback we received at our first consultation in Autumn 2023 has been invaluable in shaping our plans. For example, we have selected and refined a preferred grid connection corridor to the proposed Navenby Substation, to minimise social and environmental impact. We are also presenting our plans for landscaping and for the construction work we would need to carry out.”

James Whitney, Business Development Manager at Recurrent Energy said:

“The solar panels and other associated infrastructure would take up a small percentage of the land inside our red line boundary, creating opportunities planting and screening within the site. We are also looking at how we can benefit the local community in ways which work best for them and would like to know people’s thoughts on any community schemes or projects that we can engage with.”

Consultation materials, including documents, plans and maps of the proposed development, will be available at https://fossegreenenergy.co.uk/documents/ when the consultation launches. People can register their details on the website to ensure they are updated at key project milestones.

The project community relations team can also be contacted directly via email address info@fossegreenenergy.co.uk or by calling the project phoneline (Mon- Fri, 9am-5pm) at 0800 860 6262.

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