Quarry eyes self-sufficient way to cut soaring energy costs
Longwater Gravel has applied to Norfolk County Council for permission to install the 126kW array of ground-mounted solar panels on land at Horstead Quarry, off Buxton Road.
The array would be built on a 1,581 m² section of the site, where materials had been previously quarried and which has now been left to seed.
Documents lodged with County Hall state that the energy generated – for a period of up to 40 years – would be used to power........
