EcoWatch: The UKs clean energy sector got a boost yesterday, as Repower Balcombe, the local energy cooperative born of the 2013 fracking protests, was given the go ahead with its proposed 5 megawatt (MW) solar park in West Sussex. The group has already installed more than 100 solar panels on its village schools and nearly 70 more on a local farm, but todays planning committee is a significant step for the project. With more than 18,500 panels, it would surpass the co-ops aim of powering every home in...