42MW of solar capacity added by Low Carbon expansion
Grids in the UK and Netherlands will increase their renewable supply through the newly connected infrastructure.
In total, three new solar sites have been established. St Celere’s Solar Farm, in Essex, will produce 23MW of clean energy, and is Low Carbon’s second site in Britain following Fox Covert Solar Farm, Buckinghamshire.
Two Dutch projects have also now come online, in Utrecht (10mW), Wijkerbroek East and Wijkerbroek West (9MW). These bring the total new solar output for the Netherlands in 2024 to 120MW. In 2022, 40% of the country’s power supply came from renewables, roughly the same as the UK, which produced just under 41.5% of its energy from ‘clean’ sources that year.
‘We are delighted to connect more new renewable capacity to the grid as we make progress on our journey towards building a global Independent Power Producer,’ said Roy Bedlow, Founder and Chief Executive of Low Carbon. ‘The latest milestone for these projects reinforces our strong track record of delivering renewable energy infrastructure on time and on budget as we maximise our efforts to tackle climate change.’
Recent months have seen a number of significant additions to green energy in the UK. In November, ground was broken on the largest community windfarm in the country, situated in Kirkoswald, Ayrshire. Also in Scotland, approval was given for 18 new turbines in the Shetland Islands. Great Britain now ranks fourth globally for growth in wind power alone, ahead of India, France, Canada, among others. Only China, the US, and Germany have seen bigger increases in output.
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