Revealed the leading project developers of UK solar farms
Revealed the leading project developers of UK solar farms The Solar Intelligence crew at Solar Media continues to be hard at perform recently, uncovering the truth status of UNITED KINGDOM solar farm challenge developers. The outcomes of this new study are fascinating, and also have allowed our in-house exploration team to put together the definitive go-to client database for anyone engaged in ground-mounted photovoltaic sales and marketing activities from the UK.
Let’s begin with our dedicated methodology that underpins the job. We audited each and every solar farm built in the uk as of 7 Come early july 2015 (using the solar farm definition according to exceeding the stand-alone feed-in tariff threshold amount of 249kW), and matched the real project developers for the sites.
Forget SPV nomenclature, disregard planners that usually shield stealthy programmers, and let’s not naively assume the final developer as well as asset holder basically developed the site from the start. The goal of the recent work was clear for the team: get for the real project programmer that’s behind the website - as easy as that.
The analysis permitted us to compile a list of just over a hundred and eighty project developers. With this 180, approximately 120 include legacy success from the industry. Success is thought as having done this legwork in possessing a site that was eventually build and accredited (and typically like the small matter associated with paying the cheque for the planning authorities in the time application).
Developers that rank themselves according to approved sites only differ from this analysis, as the only tangible strategy for assigning success of an developed site is if your solar farm is actually ultimately built about the land; sounds easy, but it is not always adhered to be able to in marketing propaganda. Note, agents involved from pre-scoping/screening land recognition or HoTs usually are not included, just to steer clear of any confusion about what is happening through the real application process when official scoping as well as screening gets underway on the authority level.
Are you aware that other 60 or possibly even longer project developers that comprise the 180 – some have died from the marketplace through choice as well as self-imposed, others are actually rebranded under a different pseudonym, and a new subset has emerged which have been simply so not used to the game that they have no track record in addition to the personnel that comprise the new firm vehicle.
In terms of the ranking of this 180 unique challenge developers, Lightsource could be the clear number one particular, but perhaps to not the level that will some outside observers may perhaps imagine. This is because - to date - Lightsource’s portfolio of owned MW assets is a variety of in-house developed and third-party developed.
On a monthly basis, the percentage associated with Lightsource’s in-house developed assets is so visible to grow, with this figure likely to feed the 50% barrier within the next few months. However, the delta for the chasing pack is actually significant, and at any time growing, which is essentially a result of Lightsource staffing upward an in-house crew to scope projects during the last few years and as well being well ahead of the curve in reacting for the May 2014 insurance plan changes from DECC.
The figure under captures the detail the Solar Media exploration team has drilled down to, for the full variety of project developers. Strictly for reference, we've got shown some random entries in the ranking list down through our interior tier group different types. Showing the full listing of developers would include swamped the y-axis, and made any organization identification almost unattainable. (The actual listing of company names and tier groupings can be found in our new Top-500 ground-mount database report that can be purchased online. )
Developers in the most notable tier grouping (Tier 1) include generally been guiding initial project developments that exceed the cumulative build-out total of 100MW associated with completed sites to date. The Tier 3 grouping is roughly in the 50-100MW band, and down to be able to Tier 5 shown developers that may have been behind just a few large-scale ground-mounted success. (Shortly we may discuss the forward-looking perspective that considers pipeline exercise only, as the basis of a future article on UNITED KINGDOM solar prospecting and our project pipeline database that’s available now in beta-format. ).