Lightsource has begun supplying solar energy to Ming Foods through a 25 year power purchase agreement which stands to save the Chinese pastry specialist more than £20,000 from its annual energy costs.
Preparations are now gathering pace as the UK’s solar and clean energy industries prepare to meet at this year’s Solar Energy UK | Clean Energy Live exhibition, held at the NEC in Birmingham.
British Solar Renewables has continued its sell-off of major assets, selling the 50MW Owls Hatch solar farm to Canadian pension fund-backed Cubico Sustainable Investments.
Green utility Good Energy has warned that it expects future feed-in tariff customer growth to drop off, as it races to finish two1.2 ROC-eligible 5MW solar farms.
WELink Energy has completed the sale of its 61MW Swindon Solar Farm, developed by partners British Solar Renewables, to investment management firm Rockfire Capital.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has acknowledged the looming issue of a change in rateable values attached to commercial rooftop solar installs and pledged to “look very closely” at its potential impacts.
One of the UK’s largest solar installations to be completed at a school is saving Wellacre Academy in Flixton, Greater Manchestrer thousands off its electricity bills thanks to a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Eden Sustainable.
