Liddesdale wind farm will be located within Wauchope Forest and Newcastleton Forest and could consist of up to 80 wind turbines, with a battery storage system and solar development on the site.

The site is expected to power up to 231,000 homes.

EDF has said it will deliver a community benefit fund of £5,000 per megawatt of installed capacity annually to local communities.

Residents have been invited to meet the project team and discuss the proposals while it is still in the initial stages of development.

Government policies over the last decade have hampered the roll-out of onshore wind power in the UK. In 2016, David Cameron instituted an effective ban on the infrastructure after pressure from Conservative MPs, who worried about the impact of wind turbine damage on rural communities.

But according to research from the Energy and Climate Change Intelligence Unit, the ban may have added close to a billion pounds to energy bills last winter as oil prices...