40% of green energy already comes from wind and this will be increased when two huge windfarms Norfolk Boreas and Norfolk Vanguard have been built out to see from Bacton, though gas and nuclear generation would still be required for when there was insufficient wind..
These windfarms were going to be built by the Swedish company Vattenfall but they withdrew from the project. However, the German energy giant company RWE have bought from Vattenfall the rights to develop the two wind farms from which Vattenfall had withdrawn and the the development was now to go ahead, which will include the cables the routes of which are already planned and will be laid in 89 metre wide trenches. One route is to come ashore at Happisburgh and will go through Walcott, Ridlington, Edingthorpe and Paston parishes on its way to near Swaffham.
Another route coming ashore at Weybourne is already under construction.
We have met with our MP Duncan Baker who came to the last Parish Council meeting. He has clearly made it his business to acquaint himself with the cable engineering issues. He described some environmental, ecological and landscape disasters with the Weybourne cable particularly passing through the Glaven valley, many of which he considers could have been mitigated.
To avoid hopefully the same mistakes being made and minimise damage in Paston we and neighbouring councils would need to engage with RWE to discuss their plans, which Duncan Baker has offered to help arrange meetings and dialogue..
