Eighteen months after submission of plans for The Gate Burton Energy Park the scheme has been granted development consent by the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero.
Gate Burton Energy Park is to be built on land near Gate Burton in Lincolnshire. The electricity it generates will be exported via a connection into the existing national electricity transmission system at National Grid’s Cottam substation in Nottinghamshire.
The project is anticipated as having a generation capacity of around 500 megawatts (MW). This is equivalent to providing enough clean energy to power over 160,000 homes and avoid more than 100,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions every year.
The facility plans to build on about 684 hectares of agricultural land south of Gainsborough, near the communities of Gate Burton, Martin, Knaith Park and Willingham-by-Stow.
