A UK developer has revealed plans to build a large-scale solar farm in Scotland without the benefit of subsidies.
Elgin Energy has submitted plans to Moray Council to build up to 50 MW of capacity on the site of a former airfield near the town of Elgin.
The project would see the installation of around 200 000 solar panels on 115 hectares of land at the RAF Milltown Airfield site, which would also retain its current use of sheep grazing.
The solar farm is one of a number of planned projects to emerge in the UK’s post-subsidy environment. Bristol-based Elgin was recently granted approval to build a 20 MW project near Urquhart in Moray.
Elgin says that it would be able to build the Milltown Airfield site in under four months, but that construction would depend on a number of factors, including capital costs, technology advances and electricity prices.
