Sunny Side Up

It's only taken 3 years, but permissions appear to have been finally granted for a £450m scheme to create the UK's largest solar farm and storage facility at Cleve Hill in Kent (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/24/britains-largest-solar-farm-poised-to-begin-development-in-kent). The 364 hectare installation should be capable of supplying emissions-free electricity to some 91,000 homes. At last, the country appears to be on the verge of being able to completely dispose of coal-fired (our worst greenhouse gas producer) electricity generation. Given the numbers, I am surprised that solar power in this country has seemingly had to struggle to be adopted on a large scale. One might also ask why we need to be simultaneously signing expensive deals to allow foreign companies to slowly build new nuclear-powered electricity generating facilities in this country.