A NEW 'POWERHOUSE':
In times past it was Burwell Lode that gave the village, and North Street in particular, it’s economic base.
Nowadays Burwell has a new economically significant role in the UK's renewable power industry.
Burwell Solar Farm, an 80-hectare site has a generating capacity of 49.8 MW, enough to meet the electricity requirements of up to 9500 households and saving approximately 21641 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year.
Burwell is also a significant hub for energy storage. A 56.2 MWh lithium-ion battery-storage system (one of the largest of its kind in the UK when it came online) stores excess energy generated from renewables (like wind and solar) when demand is low and releases it when needed, enhancing grid stability and resilience.
The Burwell substation and the high capacity of the overhead cables that you can see enable renewable energy to be distributed to and from the national grid and make the whole area highly-attractive for proposed future projects.
These projects have been the focus of considerable local opposition.
THE CACHE:
The cache is not at the co-ordinates above. It is a short drive away from the original coordinates.
It can be found at:
N52 16.PR(Q+S) E000 19.TR(Q-S)
using P, Q, R etc as obtained by answering the questions in the Burwell (North Street): True or False? Adventure Lab.
These can always be found by looking back at the Journal entries for each section (after you have answered the questions correctly).
To open the Adventure Lab, look on the Adventure Lab App or follow this QR code:
