In BeGreen, we want to take responsibility for the local areas in which we have solar parks. We do this, among other things, through an amount for the municipality’s green pool, which the municipality can freely dispose of for green joint initiatives.

As a developer of renewable energy plants, we are obliged to contribute to the green pool. The size of the green pool depends on the amount of electricity produced on the concrete solar parks. In this way, BeGreen contributes to the local area at the same time as we make our energy consumption green and sustainable. That, we think, is common sense.

Landscape

We always try to place our solar cells so that they fit into the landscape as best as possible. Therefore, we primarily work with areas that are as flat as possible. In addition, the solar parks are placed as close to the local transformer stations as possible, so that we avoid having to dig down cables over longer distances.

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At BeGreen, we recognize that becoming a neighbor to a solar park can seem like a big mouthful. That is why we do what we can to make our solar parks as invisible as possible to our neighbors. At the same time, we always establish a belt of planting all around our parks, so that after just a few years the parks will largely be hidden from the naked eye behind trees and bushes.

Animal life

BeGreen’s solar parks contribute to a rich and varied wildlife by ensuring access for smaller animals and amphibians under the fence that surrounds the parks. At the same time, we make room for the larger animals by building game corridors around or through our parks where the animals have their natural movement.

A strong focus on planting locally native plant species also ensures that insects and bees also thrive at our solar parks.

Environment and biodiversity

When we convert agricultural land into solar parks, we also lend a helping hand to both climate, environment and biodiversity. Since solar energy helps to reduce CO2 emissions, it is an important factor in the green transition, which must avert the climate crisis.

BeGreen’s solar parks also help to protect groundwater, as the areas where BeGreen has solar cells are not sprayed with pesticides.

Last but not least, biodiversity increases significantly in the local areas where BeGreen has solar parks. We make sure to sow and plant a mixture of grasses, flowers, shrubs and trees in and around our parks, so that we ensure a diverse nature on areas where previously only one or two different crops were sown per year.