{"id":163529,"date":"2023-05-08T10:25:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T15:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/a-solar-farm-connects-directly-to-the-uk-grid-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2023-05-08T10:25:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T15:25:43","slug":"a-solar-farm-connects-directly-to-the-uk-grid-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/a-solar-farm-connects-directly-to-the-uk-grid-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"A Solar Farm Connects Directly to the UK Grid for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-solar-farm-connects-directly-to-the-uk-grid-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On May 4, the first photovoltaic solar farm to connect directly to the UK\u2019s National Grid transmission network went online.<\/p>\n<p>Larks Green is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/news\/bristol-news\/gallery\/uks-first-solar-farm-national-8409200\" class=\"\">200-acre solar farm<\/a> located on the Severn Vale next to the hamlet of Itchington, to the north of Bristol, and with the addition of a big battery energy storage facility, it\u2019s being heralded as a game-changer in creating a future where solar power is a consistent supplier of much of Britain\u2019s electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The 50 MW solar farm is owned and operated by Cero Generation and Enso Energy and was connected to the National Grid\u2019s Iron Acton substation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 4, the first photovoltaic solar farm to connect directly to the UK\u2019s National Grid transmission network went online. Larks Green is a 200-acre solar farm located on the Severn Vale next to the hamlet of Itchington, to the north of Bristol, and with the addition of a big battery energy storage facility, it\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}