Uniper SE stated it has determined to proceed establishing its first photo voltaic challenge in Scotland, the 45-megawatt (MW) Berryhill Photo voltaic Farm simply north of Dundee.
The German energy and gasoline utility expects to start out development “early 2026” and hearth up the ability later within the 12 months.
Berryhill’s output, from about 150,000 photo voltaic panels, could be sufficient “to energy the equal of over 12,500 UK households every year, 1/fifth the inhabitants of Angus – contributing to the UK’s web zero targets”, Uniper stated in an internet assertion.
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“The challenge has been developed collectively with accomplice Solar2 and Uniper plans to start out the development course of as its sole proprietor”, Uniper stated.
Scottish and Southern Electrical energy Networks, the district community operator, is chargeable for putting in the nine-kilometer (5.59 miles) medium-voltage cable to attach the photo voltaic farm to the grid’s level of connection on the Charleston substation on the Kingsway in Dundee, in response to Uniper.
The challenge had obtained planning permission from the Angus Council in 2022, which was modified 2024, it stated.
“As soon as operational, there will likely be a neighborhood profit fund related to the challenge which will likely be agreed with the relevant local people council – Muirhead, Birkhill and Liff Council”, Uniper stated.
In one other Scottish renewable challenge, Uniper earlier this 12 months greenlighted the development of a 46.2-MW wind farm in East Ayrshire. It expects to place the ability into manufacturing 2028 with sufficient technology for 66,000 United Kingdom houses every year, it stated in a press launch June 11.
Uniper had introduced two different UK renewable energy tasks in 2025: the Tamworth Photo voltaic Farm with a capability of round 44.2 MWp and the 21.33-MWp Totmonslow Photo voltaic Farm. The 2 tasks’ mixed capability can energy about 23,300 houses a 12 months, in response to Uniper.
Uniper goals to attach the tasks, which acquired approval from native planning authorities in 2023, to the grid subsequent 12 months, it stated in a press launch February 25.
Uniper targets an influence technology capability of 15-20 gigawatts by 2030, of which 50 % could be “renewable, low-carbon or decarbonizable”, in response to the up to date plan it introduced in its monetary and operational assertion for the primary half of 2025.
“Uniper intends to keep up its main position in offering a dependable power provide to energy and gasoline prospects in Germany and different European markets”, the assertion stated. “It has to this point made funding selections totaling round EUR 900 million beneath this technique.
“The corporate intends to speculate about EUR 8 billion in its transformation by the early 2030s and, in response to its present estimate of market developments, to speculate about EUR 5 billion by means of 2030”.
A lot of the EUR 5 billion deliberate till 2030 would go to Uniper’s inexperienced and versatile technology segments. The rest could be for the Greener Commodities section, Uniper stated.
Within the UK, beneath the 2025-30 funding plan, Uniper additionally plans to construct two gas-run vegetation with carbon seize and storage elements in Connah’s Quay and Killingholme.
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