UK: Road to be shut as power cable for 50MW solar farm installed
The cable will run from the 49.9MW Willows Green Solar Farm near Felsted will the built mainly under roads for 5.3km east of the proposed solar farm to Braintree Substation near Galleys Corner.
At full capacity, 50MW is enough to power ~60,000 homes! That's enough for nearly 10% of all of Essex. Glad these are getting connected even though there's plenty of North Sea oil and gas. UK! UK! UK!
https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/road-shut-power-cable-huge-8720162Open linkView original on lemmy.ml
How is a road closure in the UK world news?
Absolutely! /s
TBH, the mods should change the sidebar from "News from around the world!" to something like "News that have international relevance".... otherwise we can't really scold people who post curiosity stories.
They're connecting a large solar farm which has a gloabl impact.
50 MW global impact? It's about 1/20 of a typical nuclear reactor.
haha, unfortunately comparisons with this solar farm can only be made in units of "Olympic swimming pools"
I just wanna know how fat the cable is. Sounds like it is almost 3km in length.
Depends on how they're inverting the power. If they're sticking with the DC voltage straight from the panel, that's probably one thick cable. If each panel or group of panels has an inverter to go to high voltage (AC or DC) to a central location, you can proportionally scale the thickness as voltage increases.
why are they measuring solar farms in swimming pools
I thought the same thing! When posting, I wanted to give a sense of scale and took this screenshot
Ultimately, I settled on figuring how much of Essex that would cover.
which is not that helpful in worldnews...
"for a 114 hectare solar farm east of School Lane"
Now I have an idea of the actual size.
if ask me to take it down, i will.
Sorry, that was not my intention at all.
I would much prefer a world-news sub not be filled with the same stories (endless US/UK/EU politics etc) over and over again but rather have some interesting local stories from around the world.
I was just pointing out that adding some more generic descriptions would make it more readable to the rest of the world.
Take it down.
I have spoken!
Well,
1 Olympic Swimming pool = 50m * 25m according to wikipedia.
That means: 1250m2 per pool. Now multiply this by 1140: 1.425.000m2. Which is 1.425 km2