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Lightsource bp has completed its largest UK solar project to date. Completion was followed by the sale of the solar farm and co-located energy storage project to specialist renewable investment manager Schroders Greencoat.
Lightsource bp will provide asset management and Operations and Maintenance (O&M) services for the solar project via its in-house O&M team.
Tiln Farm is a 49.9MWac solar project near Retford in Nottinghamshire and, now complete, is providing power to building products manufacturer Forterra via a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA).
The signing of the PPA with Forterra in 2022 heralded the company taking significant steps to a sustainable future. Tiln Farm solar will provide the Northampton-headquartered brick, block, and concrete producer with around 70 percent of its electricity needs, in a sector-leading investment that will provide renewable energy to Forterra’s 17 sites for 15 years.
Construction on the project began in 2022, on what is the first Lightsource bp project globally to be co-located with energy storage, with a 25MW/50MWh (two-hour duration) battery also now operational onsite.
Declan Keiley, Head of Business Development for the UK and Ireland at Lightsource bp, said: “We’re proud to have completed our first co-located energy storage project and largest solar project in the
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