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Targeted Consultation: Denser development, Less mitigation and displaced harm

In launching the targeted consultation (Wednesday 7 January and Wednesday 4 February 2026), Kingsway Solar has proposed a series of changes to its solar farm scheme. While presented as refinements, these changes reveal a pattern of increasing development density, loss of mitigation and planting areas, and displacement of impacts onto land and routes that were […]

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A Response to the DESNZ Summer 2025 Tracker

The letter below was sent by KSCA to the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Ed Miliband, regarding the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s (DESNEZ) latest Public Attitudes Tracker (Summer 2025). Our open letter can be downloaded here. Summer 2025 Tracker Findings When asked about local solar farms, 43% of

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Join KSCA for the National Community Walk on Sunday 8 June

Watch the video recording of the talk and listen to the audio of the Q&A about Kingsway Solar plans below. On Sunday 8th June, over 120 local residents joined KSCA committee members and volunteers for a peaceful countryside walk through West Wratting, part of a national day of action raising awareness about the spread of

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Join KSCA for the National Community Walk on Sunday 8th June at 10am

Meeting Point at West Wratting Village Hall, Bull Lane, West Wratting, CB21 5NP Kingsway Solar Community Action (KSCA) has been invited by the Block East Pye Solar Steering Group in Lincolnshire to take part in the National Community Walk—a coordinated, nationwide event to raise awareness of the impact of large-scale solar developments on our rural

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BESS battery energy storage system

Battery storage systems: Do we need to be concerned about our safety?

What is BESS? Battery energy storage systems (BESS) use lithium-ion batteries to store excess electricity for later use, helping to replace fossil fuels with renewables. Since renewables depend on weather and lack flexibility, energy storage is essential to balance supply and demand. The government expects grid energy storage demand to reach 10 GWh by 2030

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UK solar ambitions 2025-2035: What are the plans for large-scale solar farms

To download the list of current NSIPs for solar PV: click here UK government plans for net zero The UK aims to install 45–47GW of solar PV capacity by 2030 under its Clean Power 2030 Action Plan, with potential to exceed this target, according to Solar Energy UK. The latest data from the UK government

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