Plans for third big solar farm announced for Bristol

Plans for third big solar farm announced for Bristol View Image

Council chiefs and Bristol’s City Leap partners have announced plans for the third large solar farm to be installed in the city this year. The City Leap partnership between the city council and US energy firm Ameresco have said they want to create a solar farm big enough to power almost 1,000 homes, on a site in the north west of the city.

Plans for the new solar project, on a brownfield site at Smoke Lane in Avonmouth , are the third to be unveiled this year , with City Leap wanting to extend the solar power field at Severn Road in Avonmouth, as well as create a new one on the very south western edge of Bristol, in a field in Withywood.

This third one would be a stand-alone site and generate 2.5 megawatts of energy