Johnson sees Cornish solar site ahead of G7

• UK PM signed up with ScottishPower CEO to mount the first of 10,000 PV panels at Carland Cross website

Head Of State Boris Johnson has actually helped install the first photovoltaic panels at UK's first utility-scale tidy power park, Carland Cross in Cornwall.

Johnson joined ScottishPower CEO Keith Anderson and engineers to mount the very first of 10,000 solar PV panels at the site, which will certainly produce a 10MW solar farm.

The solar farm completes an energy park that currently consists of an existing 20MW wind farm and 1MW battery storage system.

The website is just a brief distance from Carbis Bay, Cornwall where international leaders will convene for G7 summit later today.

Johnson claimed: "I am dedicated to sustaining Cornwall's aspiration to be the very first Net Zero area of the UK. The hybrid power park at Carland Cross gives a brilliant and interesting vision into a carbon-free future that will certainly shield our earth as well as create jobs for years to find."

Anderson added: "The UK requires to quadruple its renewable generation over the following three decades if we're to have any kind of opportunity of accomplishing Net Zero.

" We're very pleased to launch our first hybrid power park as the UK welcomes both the G7 and also COP26 to its coasts."

The Carland Cross solar farm is expected to attain first export later on this year, with preparing for 2 further solar farms at ScottishPower's Coldham as well as Coal Clough wind farms underway.

ScottishPower Renewables has actually also sent a planning application for a brand-new expansion at Whitelee windfarm-- the UK's biggest onshore wind farm as well as home to a 50MW "extremely battery" that consists of a 40MW solar farm as well as 50MW battery power storage, along with a green hydrogen manufacturing facility.