Together the two plants, costing a total €26.6 million, will produce approximately 26,500 MWh/year of electricity, are already generating enough energy for around 8,000 standard British homes.
Spriggs Farm has the capacity to generate 12 MWp and is located in Thaxted, Essex in the east of Great Britain. St Stephen, with an installed power capacity of 14MWp and taking its name from the town where it is located, is found at the other end of the island in the southwest, in the county of Cornwall.
The two projects cover approximately 54 hectares, with 103,040 fixed photovoltaic modules on structures made in Spain.
"We are proud to have implemented 26 MWp in such an excellent way thanks to the team's ability to work under pressure and meet the deadline set by the client," said Jorge Fernando Real, Senior Project Manager-PV Solar for Bester Generación.
To carry out these projects, Bester Generación has relied on local companies, employing a total of 27 British companies with 147 staff members in the plants.
The UK is the country which Bester Generación has committed to, installing two 26 MWp solar-photovoltaic projects, a 28 MWp one at Rose Cottage which is currently under construction, and others planned which total 254 MW and which will be implemented during 2014.
The solar photovoltaic field in the UK took off in 2011 thanks to incentive programmes introduced by the British government and a reduction in the costs of the technology. And it is still booming three years later.
"Bester Generación aims to bring its know-how in the renewable energies sector to a country in the European Union such as the UK, generating clean energy and investing in a better future for the society," said Antonio Macías Sánchez, the company's CEO.
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