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First Solar Farm in Crewe

13th October 2024 @ 6:06am – by Cheshire East
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Cheshire East Council is celebrating a key milestone towards becoming a carbon neutral council by 2027, as its first solar farm has now started to provide green electricity to both the council's composting plant and the wider grid in Crewe.

The 4.1MW solar farm – enough to power about 1,200 houses – at Leighton Grange is the latest in a wide range of projects to complete as the council examines every aspect of its operations to reduce, eliminate or offset carbon.

The solar farm will not only provide renewable energy to power the council's state-of-the-art composting plant – operated by Wastewise, an FCC Environment company – but it will also put green energy back into the national grid, helping to offset a significant amount of the council's carbon emissions.

Cheshire East has a target of achieving carbon neutrality as an organisation by 2027 and as a borough by 2045. Both these targets are more ambitious than the national ones set, and the council is on track to achieve them.

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