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BT signs PPA at Scottish wind farm

Richard Heap
March 28, 2023

UK telecoms group BT has signed a 10-year power purchase agreement for electricity from a 35MW wind farm owned by The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG).

TRIG has announced that BT has agreed to buy power from the Blary Hill onshore wind farm in Scotland on pay-as-produced terms. The project is made up of 14 Nordex turbines and is managed by RES Group.

Richard Crawford, head of energy income funds at InfraRed Capital Partners, which advises TRIG, said: “This is TRIG’s first corporate PPA and we are pleased to be entering this agreement with a strong counterparty in BT Group that supports the UK transition to net zero. Off-takers are seeing the benefits of fixing following the high power prices and volatility seen in 2022.”

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