Why I Say NO to Sunnica

1. It plates over England’s green and pleasant land with huge solar panel arrays, and battery packs the size of shipping containers. It industrialises huge tracts of what is currently green farmland,  with trees, hedgerows, and habitats for wildlife. This is environmental  destruction, not environmental protection.

2. Original area (under revision) about 1500 hectares or about 3700 acres  –  over a third of the area of Cambridge, enough to build a whole new town if you wanted to.

3. Parts of Sunnica are directly adjacent to Chippenham Park and the Chippenham Fen Site of Special Scientific Interest. Solar panel arrays can make land warmer – even at night, so the local microclimate will be changed.

4.  A power rating of 500 MW is claimed but that’s maximum power – only on bright sunny days in midsummer. Cloudy days in winter will yield much less. Solar panels don’t work at night, at all. So the average output will be much more modest. Sunnica haven’t told us how modest. And even 500 MW is very modest output for a conventional power station – and they work continuously, using much less land area.

So:  Lots of Pain, not much Gain! That's why I say NO to Sunnica!