Large-Scale Solar

Renewable energy investment firm Low Carbon has beaten today’s Renewable Obligation Contract (ROC) deadline and commissioned five new solar parks to its portfolio.

Renewable Energy Investments (REI) has granted a 25kWp solar system to North Hertfordshire College (NHC) as part of its solar power purchase scheme.

Foresight Solar Fund has completed the acquisition of a 37MW solar farm based on a disused airfield in Kencot, Oxfordshire.

Solar project developer Anesco has brought online a 6.9MW solar farm in Pen Y Cae in South Wales, and claimed it to be Europe’s “largest optimised solar farm” in operation.

An appeal against a decision to refuse planning permission for a 15MW ground-mounted solar farm in Sudbury, Sussex has been thrown out by the Planning Inspectorate.

Solar PV provider Upsolar has collaborated with installer Photon Energy to construct a 309kWp rooftop array in Basildon, Essex.

ET Solar provided 6MW of PV modules to the rooftop installation of retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) distribution centre in the East Midlands of England, at Castle Donington.

The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) has completed the acquisition of a 7.2MW solar farm from RES.

The 40MW solar farm proposed for Wroughton Airfield in Swindon called in by secretary of state for communities and local government Eric Pickles has received the go-ahead – less than two weeks before this year’s ROC deadline.

Geographic information consultancy Ian Dee Consulting (IDC) is to launch an automated solar mapping tool at next month’s Sustainability Live event which claims to speed up the identification of ideal sites for solar projects.