Farmer wants to go solar to cut power bill
FARMER David Jewell plans to soon be harvesting the power of the sun alongside his arable crops.
Arlingham-based Mr Jewell is proposing to plant 208 solar panels in a field where he has ample space between buildings on his land at Passage Farm.
The farmer knows what it feels like to endure ever-spiralling electricity bills. He said: "It is a financial thing. I am a farmer, so you have to be pretty green-minded."
There will be four 26m-long rows of solar panels if Mr Jewell gets planning permission from Stroud District Council. He added: "It is not a huge area. It is 53Kw, which isn't a lot when you think a kettle is 3Kw"
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Arlingham Parish Council clerk Andrea Welby said her members were quite happy with the idea, especially if the panels were behind a screening hedge as was Mr Jewell had suggested.
Comments
by supernova1
Wednesday, February 13 2013, 10:43AM
“Outrageous waste of resources, and this farmer would only be doing it for the attractive feed in tariffs.
Hopefully this Govt will see all this money being thrown at certain energy initiatives, is an utter waste.”