ScottishPower Renewables has completed construction of a new onshore wind farm in the Scottish Highlands – its first in five years – built specifically to support the green energy needs of supermarket giant Tesco.
The 30MW, 15 turbine Halsary wind farm in Caithness is now generating enough clean energy for the equivalent of almost 20,000 homes and will help power Tesco’s stores and operations across the country and bring more green energy on to the grid.
It was developed as part of a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), making it the first ScottishPower wind farm to be built without a government support scheme.
PPAs allow developers to invest in and build new green infrastructure projects with a clear route to market, while corporate customers benefit from a trusted source of clean energy, certainty and transparency in relation to energy costs, and a reduction in their own carbon footprint.
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