Anesco acquires Beachampton solar farm from One Planet Developments
Once operational, Beachampton solar farm will generate enough clean electricity to power around 9,000 homes, while avoiding an estimated 5,700 tonnes of carbon emissions per year.
Planning permission for the project was granted by Buckinghamshire Council on 12th January 2024, with the project due to connect to National Grid Electricity Distribution in early 2027.
As part of the approved plans, and in line with Anesco’s commitment to nature-first development, the solar farm will deliver biodiversity net gains, including enhancement of hedgerows, and new woodland trees, supporting local plants and wildlife.
Hildagarde McCarville, Anesco CEO, said: “This acquisition is another step forward in our mission to help accelerate the UK’s transition to secure and sustainable, low carbon energy - something that has seen us successfully energise more than 1.1GW of solar and storage assets to date.
“Having established a strong pipeline of solar and BESS projects ourselves, we are excited to further enhance and expand it through strategic partnerships such as this.”
James Stoney, business development director, One Planet, commented: “We are delighted to have sold another ready to build solar farm project. One Planet has planning consent for 100MW of solar across two sites with a further five projects totalling 223MW in planning and development. It also has three consented Battery Energy Storage sites totalling 500MW. We look forward to further sales of our 800MW portfolio over the coming year”.
Alistair Emery, founder of Kingwell, added: “One Planet have been excellent partners to work with in realising this exciting project on our farm at Beachampton and we are now delighted to be progressing its delivery with Anesco. Not only does it play an important part in the diversification of our wider farm business, it also meets our ambitions to enhance the environmental quality of our land holdings through improving biodiversity whilst producing low carbon renewable energy.”
