Vernon said: “The Meridian Solar Farm project will make a significant contribution to energy security in the UK, providing energy for up to 215,000 homes each year.”<\/p>\n
He said it was “critical” Meridian Solar Farm and other large-scale renewable projects were progressed “to ensure the clean energy projects contribute to the national need as soon as practicable”. <\/p>\n
Vernon said the company had worked closely with Lincolnshire County Council on its proposals. <\/p>\n
“Across multiple rounds of consultation, we have sought to take on board their views and feedback where possible,” he added.<\/p>\n
The solar farm is classed as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP), which means the decision to allow it will be determined by the government, rather than a local council.<\/p>\n
The plans are currently undergoing examination by the Planning Inspectorate. Hearings took place on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The council will make its representation to the secretary of state in which it will recommend to the government that the application should be refused. <\/p>\n
Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds<\/a>, watch the latest episode of Look North<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vernon said: “The Meridian Solar Farm project will make a significant contribution to energy security in the UK,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-764362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}