Over the past 30 years, Devon and Cornwall have played a massive role in the UK’s unique love/hate relationship with renewable energy.
The south west was home to the UK’s first ever wind farm and has since seen thousands of ground-breaking and controversial projects.
As well as large-scale initiatives, many smaller renewable schemes such as solar roof panels and heat pumps have been adopted by residents.
But not all of these schemes – large or small – have been popular. In fact, almost every single one has attracted some sort of objection.
Dozens of controversial schemes have divided communities and destroyed friendships, with some of the more ambitious projects eventually being overturned, withdrawn or just ditched.
Here we take a look at some of the biggest, most ground-breaking and controversial renewable energy projects in the South West – some of which still stand today, while others never quite made it to fruition.
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