Earlier this year, the firm won permission for a similarly large-scale fish farm on Loch Torridon in the north-west Highlands.

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The project aims to create the world's first large scale wave energy farm by constructing a wave hub, or "socket", on the seabed.

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The process of land concentration tends to be amplified by large-scale foreign land acquisitions, resulting in growing inequalities in farm size.

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Any wind farm larger than 50 megawatt of power, and any large scale energy development such as the proposed grid connection in mid Wales comes under the authority of the Department of Energy and Climate Change in London.

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While low flow fixtures, rainfall collection, and solar panels help to conserve water and energy, the desalination plant and wind farm that were part of the original plan are the kinds of large-scale facilities that would make this community truly stand out as a worldwide front-runner in sustainability.

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It will increase the amount of energy generated from offshore wind in the UK by one third to 1, 314MW. Opened in September, the Thanet wind-farm was built by the Swedish Vattenfall energy company, and increases the number of large-scale offshore British turbines to 436, to be compared with 2, 640 based on land.

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