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A wrap-up of recent solar project news including a charity in West Sussex that will save thousands on its energy bills, Lidl’s Irish solar expansion and why First Solar panels installed in Lancashire are ‘coming home’.

Lightsource BP has connected another subsidy-free, private wire solar farm, this time a 2.3MWp install in Lancashire.

Lightsource BP is proposing the development of a 49.9MW solar farm in Nottingham, with a 700MW global pipeline announced.

Lightsource BP has confirmed that it has clinched a deal with Budweiser brewer AB InBev to develop and operate PPA-backed, subsidy-free solar farms.

Lightsource BP is to deploy more than 300MW of utility-scale solar farms backed by power purchase agreements in the UK, Solar Power Portal can reveal.

Lightsource BP has expanded its footprint in the private-wire solar space with the completion of a new project in Northern Ireland.

Lightsource BP has named Ricardo Folgado as its new structured finance director, poaching the experienced executive from General Electric.

Lightsource BP has completed its first utility-scale solar farm in India after bringing online a 60MW project in Maharashtra, having won the contract through a competitive 450MW tender process completed in September 2016.

BlackRock has acquired an additional 57MW of operational UK solar as part of its £1 billion Kingfisher partnership with Lightsource BP.

Lightsource BP has bolstered its top table with the appointment of a new non-executive chairman, a hire the company said would boost its global expansion ambitions.