Bouygues Energies & Services starts building and construction on UK's biggest subsidy-free website

Jul 23, 2020 04:49 PM ET
  • Bouygues Energies & Services will certainly construct the biggest subsidy-free solar farm in the UK for NextEnergy.
Bouygues Energies & Services starts building and construction on UK's biggest subsidy-free website
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It has begun construction on 2 subsidy-free sites for the investor as well as asset supervisor, completing 115MWp in Llanwern, Wales, and Strensham, England.

At 75MW, Llanwern is the biggest solar website of its kind in the UK, and will contain over 187,500 solar modules spanning 300 acres. Strensham will certainly include 100,000 modules covering 125 acres.

Both will use 400W solar modules and main inverter solutions, as well as with each other will create adequate electrical power to fulfill the requirements of 22,000 people.

" Bouygues Energies & Services is rapidly developing itself as the leading solar PV EPC Contractor in the subsidy-free UK PV market and also as one of one of the most reputable as well as excellent quality EPC Contractors around the world, making sure quality, growth and value creation for our clients," claimed Keith Pedder, strategic sales and power director at Bouygues Energies & Services UK.

" Our groups will continue to collaborate in collaboration to guarantee the effective distribution and also completion of these projects to the finest criterion, as well as to supply additional subsidy-free solar PV projects."

Bouygues Energies & Services has been working with Cambridgeshire County Council on a number of projects, including 2 landmark solar-plus-storage projects on existing landfill websites, which have been hailed as the very first of their kind in the UK.

In April 2020, the two revealed a 2.5 MW solar carport project also, which will include battery storage space and is to be constructed in Cambridgeshire.

NextEnergy UK has been strongly developing itself within the subsidy-free solar market over the in 2014, including switching on what was then hailed as the largest such website in the UK-- the 50MWp Staughton solar site-- in December.

Ross Grier, taking care of director NextEnergy UK, claimed: "Following a considerable advancement procedure, we are very pleased as well as excited to be partnering with Bouygues Energies & Services UK, our chosen EPC Partner for the shipment of these essential solar ranches that proceed NextEnergy's deployment of new, subsidy-free solar in the UK."

Speaking With Solar Power Portal in January, NextEnergy Capital CEO Mike Bonte-Friedheim claimed creating subsidy-free projects in the UK has transformed "every little thing" in business version.

Regardless of the impact of COVID-19 on the company, it is still intending further build-out of its subsidy-free profile, confirming in an upgrade in April its plans to return to such developments 'quickly' with a 8.5 MWp subsidy-free expansion prepared for its High Garrett site.


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