{"id":591662,"date":"2026-04-18T11:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/591662\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T11:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:53:08","slug":"industrial-scale-solar-farms-attacked-by-norfolks-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/591662\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Industrial scale&#8217; solar farms attacked by Norfolk&#8217;s Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rowett has been speaking to BBC Norfolk as part of a series of interviews with local party leaders ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cz9qdk5q8ddo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">next month&#8217;s local elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With 84 seats up for grabs, the Greens currently have four councillors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the party is traditionally in favour of renewables, she said she was opposed to &#8220;industrial scale energy infrastructure schemes&#8221; such as the East Pye development at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastpyesolar.co.uk\/scheme-overview\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">series of sites in and around Long Stratton, external<\/a>, which covers 2,700 acres (1,090 hectares).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">IGP is owned by the Australian firm Macquarie Asset Management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The basic thing is that these shocking schemes are [proposed by] foreign investors looking to make a profit out of our ridiculous energy prices,&#8221; said Rowett.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a huge profit margin for those who can get some renewable energy from our sunshine and take the profits offshore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said countryside solar schemes should be smaller and locally operated, and called for a stronger drive for solar panels to be installed on rooftops of public and private buildings instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rowett has been speaking to BBC Norfolk as part of a series of interviews with local party leaders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-591662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}