York Council’s Labour environment spokesperson Cllr Jenny Kent said Rufforth’s Harewood Whin green energy park would make the city less reliant on energy coming the Middle East and the US.
Chief Strategy Officer Claire Foale said the project could initially save the council up to £195,000-a-year but there were challenges with the currently favoured approach of building it in phases.
It comes as York Council’s Executive backed progressing with the planned site, in Tinker Lane, on Tuesday, September 2.
Councillors approved drawing up a full business case following two initial proposals and the approval of plans for ground mounted solar panels generating up to 16.5MW in April.
The completion of the full business case will be subject to the council receiving York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority funding which Ms Foale said was currently uncertain.
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