{"id":814245,"date":"2026-10-26T08:34:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T08:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814245\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T08:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T08:34:40","slug":"powering-the-future-from-brogborough-landfill-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814245\/","title":{"rendered":"Powering the future from Brogborough landfill site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jason McGray, head of development of Northampton-based Infinis, said the solar site will also feed straight into the grid and a &#8220;private wire connection&#8221; will run to Cranfield, part of the Brogborough Clean Energy Hub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the land cannot be used for anything else due to the &#8220;long-term management of gas and leakage liquids&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That gas is collected and fed through gas engines to generate a constant power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;It&#8217;s constant, it&#8217;s green energy but it&#8217;s predictable and manageable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Combined with that we&#8217;re now building solar so we&#8217;ve got the two sources of renewable energy both coming out of the same resource.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the event that too much power is generated, McGray said there is also room on site for battery storage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve got planning permission, so we can then store power temporarily until it&#8217;s needed on the grid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McGray predicts managing the gas will go on longer than the 35-year expected life of the solar farm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason McGray, head of development of Northampton-based Infinis, said the solar site will also feed straight into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-814245","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\/814245","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=814245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}