We Are Pioneer signs VPPA with UK's largest community owned solar park

• Developer and operator of life science parks across the UK We Are Pioneer Group (WAPG) has actually signed a virtual company power purchase agreement (VPPA) for 4 of its campuses.

They will become the 'very first' scientific research parks to source renewable electrical power from a single, devoted vendor and will certainly have the ability to report zero carbon emissions on its scope two electricity.

Ray Valley Solar, an Oxfordshire-based solar farm and the largest community-owned ground place solar park in the UK, will provide the power to WAPG science campuses situated in Manchester (Hexagon Tower), Glasgow (BioCity), Bedford (Colworth Park) and also Edinburgh Technopole.

The solar park will power over 700,000 square feet of office as well as laboratory room to more than 100 life science companies situated within WAPG's campuses.

The VPPA agreement will certainly match the power requirement from the four scientific research parks with Ray Valley Solar farm's 19GWh annual production, according to Rowan Packer, head of sustainability at building monitoring MAPP.

Toby Reid, executive director at WAPG, claimed: "The energy use of some labs can be practically ten times that of a conventional office complex, yet the work being done within them is concentrated on producing remedies to international wellness as well as ecological obstacles. For WAPG, it is imperative that we are providing areas in which science as well as innovation business owners can produce maximum positive influence in one of the most ecological as well as sustainable method possible."