A new plant has been approved for construction outside Eye, in Suffolk:
"It will operate as a ?peaking plant?, providing back-up to intermittent renewable electricity generation, making it the first of its kind to be permitted in England."
"The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Amber Rudd, granted permission for the development with a gas insulated substation on agricultural land in Yaxley, although the developer signalled their intention that they would prefer an air insulated substation. Underground cables will connect the facility to the national grid, and the developers claim the substation will be ?in-keeping? wi th the local surroundings."
It's a disused airfield, so what does that mean? It has 4 huge wind turbines on the same site, ("The turbines? hubs are at 80m, and the blades have 50m radius, meaning at full height the tip of the blade takes them to 130m"). I hope it doesn't match them. But the airfield was the perfect spot to see the Vulcan fly right overhead a few weeks ago.