The farm will have a total capacity of up to 1GW, equivalent to powering 800,000 homes

Applicants must embed energy efficiency in the design of their projects, focusing on energy uses such as heating, cooling, refrigeration, compressed air and business processes

Consumers would be able to generate their own renewable electricity – for example from solar panels on their roofs – and receive a ‘fair price’ when they sell the excess to the grid

The project aims to minimise and repurpose wind turbine blade waste