Welcome
Thank you for visiting our website which is here to provide information and ways to feedback on our plans for a new solar farm on land at Wilsons Road, Longstanton, south of Longstanton village, west of Oakington, and north-east of Bar Hill.
We are Regener8 Power, our vision is to help power the country towards more reliable, affordable, and clean energy through quality and innovative schemes, which do more than just farm clean energy and which benefit the local community.
Founded in 2018, we focus on the development of high-quality solar, and energy storage projects. At the moment, we have almost 50 projects across the UK, Italy, Poland and New Zealand.
In 2019, South Cambridgeshire Council declared a climate emergency and committed to becoming a Net Zero district by 2050. They subsequently agreed a Zero Carbon Strategy, which aims to halve emissions in the area by 2030. At the same time, they agreed a Doubling Nature Strategy, which seeks to increase the number of wildlife-rich habitats and improve people’s access to green spaces. As part of the Council’s consultation on its Local Plan, they note that “Feedback included that we should support renewable energy production, use and investment.”
Since then, we’ve been working with our consultants, the landowners and our immediate neighbours, to bring plans forward. We are now keen to discuss the emerging plans with the wider community, listen to feedback and understand how you think the plans can be improved.
Your feedback is important to us
Thank you to all of those who were able to attend our event at Longstanton Village Hall on the 18th December and provide feedback.
The exhibition materials and feedback form are now available to download online.
Our public consultation is open until Friday 17th January.
View a copy of the information that was on display at the exhibition & provide your feedback online:
Some of the key benefits include:
The displacement of over 6,890 tonnes of CO2 from equivalent fossil fuel energy. This equates to taking circa 3,280 cars off Cambridgeshire’s roads per year.
Significant biodiversity net gain, providing ecological benefit through re-establishing hedgerow connections, provision of species rich grassland and enhanced landscaping.
Sheep grazing would be compatible throughout the site.
A community benefit fund will be provided to local causes: please provide suggestions on where these funds can be directed.
Approximately £52k of business rates per annum paid to South Cambridgeshire District Council, which can be spent on local infrastructure, services and facilities.
The 26MW development would generate enough clean energy to power approximately 8,220 homes per annum, considerably improve local biodiversity while continuing to contribute toward food production with the ability for sheep grazing around the panels.