Lightsource Renewable Energy, Europe’s leading solar energy company, has connected 23 new sites in December totalling more than 100MW of new capacity. This includes 14 sites connected under the Feed-In tariff (FIT) and 9 sites under the Renewable Obligations Certificate (ROC) schemes.
As well as a bumper month of connections, Lightsource has a busy New Year ahead with plans to connect a further 14 ground-mount sites totalling 92MW by March 31st – to take its total installed capacity in the UK to 1.3GW.
Nick Boyle, CEO of Lightsource, said: “Despite the cloud of uncertainty hanging over the industry in recent months, we’ve seen a great many successes in 2015 and this latest round of connections is a great way for us to end the year. We are certainly no stranger to tough deadlines and difficult weather conditions, but it’s a huge testament to the capabilities of our in-house teams that we are able to complete such a mammoth task in a very short period of time.”
In response to the recent UK government changes to the solar subsidy mechanism, Lightsource will be installing and connecting its first subsidy-free sites in 2016. The Lightsource private-wire Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) will see large-scale solar sites “hard-wired” directly into large electricity users – comfortably beating the retail price that they are paying for electricity.
