The solar field with 5500 panels has been in the sun for months, but the cables to the electricity grid have not yet been laid

Barendrecht’s councilor for spatial planning and the environment, Lennart van der Linden, also points to Stedin. “We had a wonderful summer, but nothing was excited because the plug is not in the socket yet,” he says in a video on Twitter. In the background, the (not yet) operational De Punt solar field. “It is up to Steding, our network operator, of which we as a municipality are also shareholders. They don’t have their business in order.” The accompanying text above the video reads: “A complaint is imminent”.

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