Eco-Zealots vs. Doncaster: How Lobbyists Hijacked Our Energy 🚨

Fenwick’s Solar Fiasco 🌧️📍 10 miles north of Doncaster, near Askern, Fenwick’s 237.5MW solar farm promises 208–250 GWh yearly for 75,000 homes.

🚫 Winter’s 6-7 hours of cloudy daylight slash output to 2-5% (4–12MW). Capacity factor: 9-12%.

💸 £200M cost hits bills, no blackout protection (recall 2019’s outage!).

🌾 Ami Sett’s Action Group slams it for eating 70% of Fenwick’s farmland.

Thorpe Marsh: Grid Strain & Fire Risks 🔥

🔌 £750M upgrade with 1.4GW/3.1GWh battery system (BESS) for Fenwick and Tween Bridge.

⚡ 1960s grid can’t cope—solar swings risk blackouts. UK grid upgrade: £3T (£100k/household)!

🌿 Next to Thorpe Marsh Nature Reserve, a 77-hectare haven for kingfishers; wetlands could support otters

.🚒 BESS fire risk threatens the reserve and Barnby Dun/Kirk Sandall (110,000 residents nearby). Floodplains complicate firefighting.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/723869

Tween Bridge & Whitestone:

Solar Madness 🏭🌞 Tween Bridge (800MW, £800M, 409MW BESS): 701–841 GWh yearly, drops to 16–40MW in winter. Eats green belt!

🌾 Whitestone (750MW, £750M): Threatens Conisbrough farmland, local fury. Another winter flop.😤 Both raise bills, strain Thorpe Marsh, deliver little power.

Lobbyists Running the Show 🗣️😎 Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and Ed Miliband (Doncaster North) push solar despite 9-12% capacity factor.

📉 £3T grid bill, blackout risks ignored. CCC: 2030’s a stretch; NESO’s optimism is clueless.🛑 Engineers warn Thorpe Marsh can’t handle solar, but lobbyists shout louder.

Government Flops:

Conservatives & Labour 🙈🏛️ Conservatives (2010-2024): Ignored Thorpe Marsh’s grid, backed Fenwick, stalled nuclear despite Hartlepool.

🌹 Labour: 2030 net-zero grid is a fantasy. £8.3B Great British Energy vs. £3T. More solar, no SMRs, job risks from oil/gas cuts.😢 Armthorpe households, Thorne businesses pay with outages, bills up 80% since 2020.