Plans to develop a 75-acre solar farm at Kiln Fields in Heckfield, Hampshire, have been given the green light.

Councillors on the Hart District planning committee voted 10-0 in favour of the application from clean energy solutions company Enviromena.

The 17.9MW Kiln Farm project will support the UK's transition to Net Zero, will help mitigate the effects of climate change , and will produce enough energy to power 6,700 average sized homes every year. With 33,102 monocrystalline bifacial solar modules, it will generate 19,025 MWhs of energy, offsetting approximately 4,500 tonnes of carbon emissions per annum.

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This is the second Enviromena site in as many months to have been granted planning permission and follows the 24.2MW Horsey Levels project in Somerset. Together, the Kiln Fields and Horsey Levels projects are two of three sites which were sold to Blackfinch Energy, part of Blackfinch Group. The third site, the 25.7MW Three Maids Hill in Winchester, Hampshire, is expected to be finished construction in the next six weeks.

Deals like this, combined with funding from major shareholder Arjun Infrastructure Partners, have enabled Enviromena to remain active throughout the lifecycle of solar project development and operation in the UK and Europe.

Enviromena's Chief Executive Cabell Fisher said: "Sites like Horsey Levels and Kiln Fields are vitally important as we work towards the UK Government’s new targets to more than double existing renewable generation capacity."