DEAN MOOR SOLAR FARM

We have now completed our statutory consultation on our proposals for a solar farm with Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), Dean Moor Solar Farm. Our consultation ran from Monday 11th March 2024 to Friday 26th April 2024. Thank you to all who submitted feedback on our proposals.

More information on the statutory consultation can be found on the Public Consultation page and the consultation materials are available on the Documents page.

Dean Moor Solar Farm is located between the villages of Gilgarran and Branthwaite in West Cumbria. If approved, the project will consist of the construction, operation and maintenance, and decommissioning of a solar energy generating station comprising solar photovoltaic (‘PV’) arrays, Battery Energy Storage System (‘BESS’), landscape and biodiversity enhancements, and other associated infrastructure (‘the Proposed Development’) on approximately 279.50 hectares (‘ha’) of land.

The solar farm will assist in tackling the climate emergency and help the UK Government in meeting its target to reach net zero by 2050 and ambition to reach 70 gigawatts of installed solar capacity by 2035. The BESS facility will reinforce the power generated by the solar farm and provide balancing services to maintain grid stability.

Additional information about the proposals and the consultation process can be found on the Government’s National Infrastructure Planning Website.

FAQs Section Update

We’d like to thank local residents for providing their feedback during the informal public consultation stage, which we held in October 2023. We have updated our FAQ section to address some of the most frequent questions asked during the non-statutory consultation phase. The new FAQs are marked with a *.