PACE given green light for 3rd UK solar-plus-storage site this year

• Pathfinder Clean Energy (PACE) has actually safeguarded intending consent for a 26MWp solar-plus-storage farm, located 15 miles south-west of Norwich.

The ground-mounted Attleborough solar-plus-storage site is allocated for building and construction in 2022, although this is subject to financing.

This is the third authorization of the year for PACE, with its Three Bridges site approved in February and its Burgate solar farm approved in August. It takes the business's allowed pipe in the UK to over 70MWp.

Along with having projects in Canada, Spain and Poland, PACE is to introduce details on a 300MW pipe of UK solar-plus-storage projects in the next few weeks, having just recently begun the advancement and also appointment process for a 50MW solar farm near Diss, Suffolk.

Rob Denman, taking care of director of PACE, said the firm is positive its assets can supply a "solid payment" to the UK's decarbonisation.

" We will certainly continue to innovate throughout our projects with added co-location of energy storage where suitable as well as integrating extra innovations as and when they come to be practical such as concurrent condensers, hydrogen or other improvements."