2018

TL5170 : Chittering Solar Farm

taken 6 years ago, near to Upware, Cambridgeshire, England

This is 1 of 17 images, with title Chittering Solar Farm in this square
Chittering Solar Farm
Chittering Solar Farm
Chittering Solar Farm :: TL5171

Chittering Solar Farm is built along the Fen Line railway between Cambridge and Ely. The first 5MW farm opened in 2012 and a second 6.5MW farm is being built in 2015.

The Fens

The Fens, also known as the Fenland, is a naturally marshy region in eastern England. Most of the fens were drained several centuries ago, resulting in a flat, damp, low-lying agricultural region.
A fen is the local name for an individual area of marshland or former marshland and also designates the type of marsh typical of the area, which has neutral or alkaline water chemistry and relatively large quantities of dissolved minerals, but few other plant nutrients.
Fenland primarily lies around the coast of the Wash; it reaches into four counties: Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and a small area of Suffolk, as well as the historic county of Huntingdonshire. In whole it occupies an area of nearly 1,500 sq miles.
Most of the Fenland lies within a few metres of sea level. As with similar areas in the Netherlands, much of the Fenland originally consisted of fresh- or salt-water wetlands, which have been artificially drained and continue to be protected from floods by drainage banks and pumps.


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Geographical Context: Energy infrastructure
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Solar Farm [33] · Chittering Solar Farm [23] Title Clusters: · Chittering Solar Farm [17] ·
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TL5170, 62 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
N Chadwick   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 21 April, 2018   (more nearby)
Submitted
Monday, 13 August, 2018
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TL 5172 7021 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:18.5428N 0:13.4426E
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OSGB36: geotagged! TL 5177 7021
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