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Sept 2022
Last Updated: 20/09/2022
Business Breakfast: Knaresborough company to build solar farm
Today, a Knaresborough firm gets the go-ahead to build a solar farm which will generate enough electricity to power 30,000 homes in New Zealand and a Harrogate estate agents introduces online auctions.
Harmony Energy is set to build the solar farm in Waikato, New Zealand.
Business Breakfast is sponsored by Harrogate law firm Truth Legal.
A Knaresborough-based energy company has been given the green light to develop New Zealand’s largest solar farm in Waikato.
Harmony Energy will create the development, which will generate enough electricity to power 30,000 homes.
The country’s Environmental Protection Authority has approved Harmony’s proposal for the 147-megawatt solar farm to be installed on 182 hectares of a 260-hectare site at Te Aroha West, 140 kilometres south of Auckland.
Harmony Energy director, Pete Grogan, who is based in New Zealand, said:
“We are thrilled this important renewable development can now proceed. Renewable energy is critical to mitigate the negative impact of climate change and help support New Zealand’s net zero ambition.
“One of the great advantages of solar power is that it accommodates dual use of land, allowing for energy generation alongside continued farming production, as will happen at Tauhei.
“This proposal creates opportunities for local businesses and employment and creates significant biodiversity gains. We will deliver an exceptional project that Waikato can be proud of."
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Yorkshire estate agent introduces online auction
Patrick McCutcheon, head of residential at Dacre, Son & Hartley.
Harrogate district estate agents Dacre, Son & Hartley has introduced a new online auction service.
The service allows people to buy and sell land and property online 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The company, which has offices in Harrogate, Knaresborough, Ripon and Pateley Bridge, partnered with Bamboo Auctions to launch the service.
Patrick McCutcheon, head of residential at Dacre, Son & Hartley, said:
“This new service is specifically designed to make it quick, easy and straightforward to list and sell properties and vendors don’t have to wait to join other sellers in a collective auction catalogue.
“Buying and selling a property through this method provides each party with an additional degree of certainty, because once the auction ends, both the buyer and seller are legally bound to proceed with the transaction, in accordance with the published terms and conditions."
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