'Another step in the right direction': UK's largest solar farm given green light

Michael Holder
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Cottam Solar Project on border between Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire set to deliver 600MW of clean power capacity

Hopes of delivering Britain's stretching 2030 clean power target have received another major boost this week, after the government gave the green light to "the UK's largest" solar farm at a site on the...

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