Huge wind farm application submitted for rural South Lanarkshire

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A planning application for a major wind farm has been submitted to South Lanarkshire Council for review. Planning officials are expected to consider proposals by Banks Renewables to develop the 37-turbine Bodinglee Wind Farm and battery storage development near Douglas.If approved, Bodinglee will be among the most powerful and most efficient onshore wind farms in the UK and would provide more than 200,000 households with green electricity annually and could displace the equivalent of around 70,000 petrol cars’ annual CO2 emissions from the UK’s electricity supply grid.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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