Need

Enough energy to supply up to 250,000 homes

Whitestone Solar Farm would make a significant contribution to our national energy goals, helping in the fight against climate change while supporting energy security and reducing future energy costs.

The UK is a global leader in the fight against climate change. We have made a legally-binding agreement to reduce carbon emissions to net-zero by 2050. We have also committed to Clean Power by 2030 – which means eliminating fossil fuels from our electricity supply.

We have already made significant progress in these goals, but there’s more work to do. Ratcliffe-on-Soar, the last remaining coal power station in the UK, was closed in September 2024. While coal is no longer being used to generate our electricity, we still use a significant amount of natural gas. This requires new renewable energy sources to replace the older forms of energy production.

At the same time, our demand for electricity is projected to double by 2050, as we transition from traditional vehicles and boilers to electric cars and heat pumps to heat our homes, schools and hospitals.

This means that there is an urgent need to develop new sources of renewable energy, here in the UK.  The current government policy calls for tripling our current solar capacity, to 50 GW by 2030. Whitestone could make a significant contribution towards this goal, producing up to 750 MW which is enough energy to power 250,000 homes.