Bedford Independent
SEMLEP’s site visit to Bedford Green Technology & Innovation Park
1,800 solar panels are being installed at a new green innovation park that is transforming a former landfill site in Elstow, Bedfordshire.
The Bedford Green Technology and Innovation Park will sit on a 30-hectare site and is planned to be completed in early 2022.
Work has commenced on the site after Bedford Borough Council was awarded more than £1.8million from the South East Midlands Enterprise Partnership (SEMLEP) Getting Building Fund last year, enabling plans for the all-new Bedford Green Technology and Innovation Park to become a reality.
Work to cap the closed 30-hectare site with clay began last year and the 1,800 solar panels will generate and supply onsite buildings and local businesses with low carbon, clean energy.
Former Bedfordshire landfill to be converted into a green energy park
The project, which is due to be commissioned next year, will be home to 1,800 solar panels
A former landfill site at Elstow, Bedfordshire will soon be transformed into a green energy park.
The 600,000 square metre-site will be home to nearly 1,800 solar panels that will supply local buildings with energy.
Bedford Borough Council has been awarded £1.8 million from the South East Midlands Enterprise Partnership (SEMLEP) Getting Building Fund to support the construction of the site.
The so-called Bedford Green Technology and Innovation Park is expected to be completed by early 2022.
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A former landfill site is being transformed into a green energy innovation park – with work now underway at Elstow in Bedfordshire, England.
Bedford Borough Council was awarded more than £1.8 million from the South East Midlands Enterprise Partnership (SEMLEP) Getting Building Fund in 2020, enabling plans for the all-new Bedford Green Technology and Innovation Park to become a reality.
Work to cap the closed 30 ha. site with clay began in 2020 and the site is soon set to become home to more than 1800 solar panels, which will generate and supply onsite buildings and local businesses with low carbon, clean energy.
Construction teams are on site and at work and to date 120 000 t of materials have been brought onto the site for the capping works, now underway. Once the capping works are completed a platform will be formed for the installation of the solar panels.