Subsidy free solar: Lightsource BP strikes major green power deal with Budweiser brewer

Madeleine Cuff
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Lightsource BP will build out the UK's largest unsubsidised solar installation to provide green power to make Budweiser beer

Yesterday was a gloomy day for the UK solar industry, but the outlook has brightened considerably this morning with news developer Lightsource BP has struck the UK's biggest deal yet for unsubsidised solar...

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