Diageo gets green light for 4.1 MW solar farm in Fife

• Beverage company Diageo has been given the green light by Fife council for the building of its 4.1 MW solar farm.

The site will remain on vacant land within the company's Leven product packaging site, with 9,000 photovoltaic panels now ready to be mounted from July. The solar farm will certainly meet up to 22% of the site's annual electrical energy needs and also up to 60% over summer months.

Diageo submitted the preparation application for the site in July 2021. E.ON and also Scottish-based Emtec Energy will certainly deliver the site, which is set up to be operational by very early 2023.

Gavin Brogan, procedures supervisor at Diageo Leven, claimed: "It's superb to make this project a reality, developing a much more resistant and energy-efficient plant. Working in collaboration with E.ON as well as Emtec Energy, the solar array will create nearly a quarter of our annual energy usage and also is an amazing progression in the direction of meeting our net zero commitments.

" We have a number of those projects in the pipe, including checking out sustainable heating solutions which the solar farm advancement will certainly help to power."

The solar farm develops an essential part of Diageo-- which creates drinks consisting of Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff vodka, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness-- Society 2030: Spirit of Progress commitment, which includes a target of coming to be carbon neutral by 2026.