Is the UK’s biggest solar farm a blueprint for the future?

With more than half a million solar panels standing 9ft 10in (3m) off the ground, Cleve Hill Solar Park near Faversham in Kent is an imposing site.

It is the biggest solar park in the country and almost five times bigger than the next largest solar site in operation.

It has been generating electricity for five months and, at times during the summer, produced 0.7% of Great Britain’s energy needs.

The government plans to more than double the amount of solar energy in the UK in the next five years and Cleve Hill is seen as a forerunner to the mega solar farms coming down the line.