I am a massive renewables advocate but generally against solar farms on the basis that there is ample non utilised roof space and it’s better to not take up useful farmland. However, in 2:24 you have changed my mind. This is very sympathetic to the land and protects it for generations to come. An amazing project from an amazing company. All the success for the future Gridserve, I salute you.
@@brettsta72 They say its good for the workers to work under cover out of rain and sun and some plants dont like too much sun and other plants it makes their leaves grow larger . im sure there are many more benefits too
Interesting project but they need to focus their efforts in the south where production is too reliant on fossil. Electricity is a nightmare to transport long distance as the energy attenuates (otherwise all power generation would probably be centralised in Scotland or something.) National grid publishes a map of your local g/CO2 per kilowatt and it's worse in the south. Scotland is lowest as much of its local kilowatts are created using renewables. The like of Grid serve really could smash the fossil based local kilowatt problem with this development and technology. Its a game changer.
@@anisabujdoso154 As a taxpayer I would be delighted if my local authority had the foresight to build something similar to this locally. Great project, well thought through. Will give the local area some energy security, lower bills and a reduction in their carbon dioxide emissions. Win,win, win.
That's a very funny troll comment. Maybe if we could wait 25 years while they're building it, and we have £25-£30 billion to spend building it, and another £10+ billion to pay for the 10,000 years of waste storage when it's done, yes you could build a mere 3 gigawatt power plant there. And there's another pathetic response to your comment hoping the taxpayer isn't paying for the solar farm installation. Who who gets the biggest subsidies? Renewables you scream and shout. Pathetically wrong, deliberately stupid. Now, renewables get about 4% of total govt subsidies, the rest goes to Nuclear, the biggest, heaviest and longest lasting burden on UK taxpayers is and always will be nuclear.
Most nuclear plants need access to a large water supply for cooling, go over budget by the millions during construction & no one has satisfactorily solved how to store the high level waste safely for the period during which it remains dangerous. Great apart from that. ;)
A nuclear power station requires considerably more land than this. That land can never be used for anything else. Ever. Unlike this project where the solar panels could be removed and crops planted the next day.
Nuclear Power plants are very expensive to build (£20 billion)and take a lot of space also takes around 20-30 years to build and you will need to pay for the waste afterwards (£57 billion) for 10,000 years
what an amazing project.. well done!!
Well done York, if only others would follow
They have. There is a field full of solar panels just down the road from my village. There are hundreds of them....
I’d love to see this in Australia
It's crazy that Oz isn't at the forefront of this sort of tech/development given the amazing solar resources you have down there.
@@benpaynter totally agree. We do have the solar farm/ Tesla batteries in South Australia but such a slow progression everywhere else.
Gridserve 2.0 could be agrivoltaic...
I am a massive renewables advocate but generally against solar farms on the basis that there is ample non utilised roof space and it’s better to not take up useful farmland. However, in 2:24 you have changed my mind. This is very sympathetic to the land and protects it for generations to come. An amazing project from an amazing company. All the success for the future Gridserve, I salute you.
I would like to see plants grown along side of the panels , they have done this in other places
@@rodden1953 yeah good idea. I like it. Why not.
@@brettsta72 They say its good for the workers to work under cover out of rain and sun and some plants dont like too much sun and other plants it makes their leaves grow larger . im sure there are many more benefits too
When is the new charging station near York coming on line
Interesting project but they need to focus their efforts in the south where production is too reliant on fossil.
Electricity is a nightmare to transport long distance as the energy attenuates (otherwise all power generation would probably be centralised in Scotland or something.)
National grid publishes a map of your local g/CO2 per kilowatt and it's worse in the south. Scotland is lowest as much of its local kilowatts are created using renewables.
The like of Grid serve really could smash the fossil based local kilowatt problem with this development and technology. Its a game changer.
Awesome
Turning a massive grassland into a massive wasteland. Nice 👌
Could have built a perfectly good Nuclear Power Plant there, the most efficient way of generating energy. Waste of space.
I was gonna stay the Same thing. I hope that wasn't paid by the taxpayer
@@anisabujdoso154 As a taxpayer I would be delighted if my local authority had the foresight to build something similar to this locally. Great project, well thought through. Will give the local area some energy security, lower bills and a reduction in their carbon dioxide emissions. Win,win, win.
In 5 months? I doubt it.
That's a very funny troll comment.
Maybe if we could wait 25 years while they're building it, and we have £25-£30 billion to spend building it, and another £10+ billion to pay for the 10,000 years of waste storage when it's done, yes you could build a mere 3 gigawatt power plant there. And there's another pathetic response to your comment hoping the taxpayer isn't paying for the solar farm installation.
Who who gets the biggest subsidies?
Renewables you scream and shout.
Pathetically wrong, deliberately stupid.
Now, renewables get about 4% of total govt subsidies, the rest goes to Nuclear, the biggest, heaviest and longest lasting burden on UK taxpayers is and always will be nuclear.
fullychargedshow absolutely right. And that is definitely Robert writing that too, I could hear him saying it as I read it.
Nuke power is far efficient, cost saving and space saving
Most nuclear plants need access to a large water supply for cooling, go over budget by the millions during construction & no one has satisfactorily solved how to store the high level waste safely for the period during which it remains dangerous. Great apart from that.
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A nuclear power station requires considerably more land than this. That land can never be used for anything else. Ever. Unlike this project where the solar panels could be removed and crops planted the next day.
Nuclear Power plants are very expensive to build (£20 billion)and take a lot of space also takes around 20-30 years to build and you will need to pay for the waste afterwards (£57 billion) for 10,000 years
@@MattHawkinsUK or crops growing with the panels , it has been done
@@rodden1953 And I've seen panels mounted 8 to 10 feet above ground level, with sheep grazing under them.....