Making the Most of Incentives and Developments in the Solar Farm Market Squeeze on Incentives & Grid Our recent experiences suggest that regardless of the Government?s squeeze on incentives ? and in spite of the electrical grid?s dwindling capacity for new, large-scale generation connections ? many more farmers and landed…
The Energy Assets team are delighted to be working with Butler Sherborn, a diverse and well-established rural practice firm based in the Cotswolds with six offices covering Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and London. Rural Services Head of Rural Services is Richard Greasby MRICS FAAV, an experienced land agent who has been with…
As we predicted in our reaction to DECC?s review of the Renewable Obligation (RO) incentive in May 2014, there has been a move towards solar farms schemes under 5MW. The developers we work with are now accepting sites as small as 2MW, which opens the door for smaller areas of…
Solar farms: what the RO review means for farmers and landowners DECC?s review, today, of the Renewable Obligation (RO) incentives for large-scale solar has, understandably, been met with frustration and even contempt by solar industry insiders; but what does this mean for landowners with solar farm potential on their ground?…
We are delighted to announce that Energy Assets, the large-scale specialist arm of the EnergyMyWay group, has partnered with our first land agency firm Giles Wheeler-Bennett, based in Hampshire. The Giles Wheeler-Bennett team is now able to offer independent renewables expertise at their usual high standards to existing clients and…
It is no surprise that solar farms generating guaranteed ground rents in the region of £1,000 per acre over 20+ years remain attractive to farmers and landowners. Growth in the field-scale solar market is currently running at 600% per year and a large number of developers are entering the market,…
EnergyMyWay is proud to announce that the largest solar farm in the UK achieved planning consent on Tuesday evening, with overwhelming public support. Our specialist large-scale team, Energy Assets, initiated and designed the proposed development, to be sited at the Science Museum?s Wroughton Airfield site. The scheme will be 40MW,…
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has today confirmed the revised ?strike prices? for solar, onshore wind and offshore wind. The strike price is the financial lever by which the Contracts for Difference (CfD) mechanism is operated, whereby the Government guarantees to pay generators the difference between wholesale…