Buckinghamshire solar farm set to power 9,000 homes
Renewables developer and operator Anesco has acquired a 36MWp solar farm site in Beachampton, near Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
Developed by One Planet Developments in partnership with Viridi Re Development, Solar Ambition Europe, and landowner Kingwell, the solar farm, once built by Anesco, will generate enough clean electricity to power around 9,000 homes and avoid an estimated 5,700 tonnes of carbon emissions a year.
Images: Kingwell/Anesco
Planning permission was granted by Buckinghamshire Council in January 2024, with the project due to connect to National Grid Electricity Distribution in early 2027.
As part of the approved plans, the solar farm will provide biodiversity net gains, including the enhancement of hedgerows and new woodland trees.
Hildagarde McCarville, chief executive of Reading-based Anesco, 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.
Hildagarde McCarville
"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 (left) and Alistair Emery
James Stoney, business development director at One Planet, said: "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."
Anesco has energised more than 1.1GW of solar and storage assets, while its renewables operation and maintenance arm has more than 1.6GW of renewable energy under management across the UK and Northern Europe.