'Landmark moment': UK's largest subsidy-free solar plant comes online

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NextEnergy Solar Fund says project demonstrates financial viability and energy generation potential of large scale subsidy-free solar projects in the UK

A 50MWp solar farm on a former airfield on the border of Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire is now operational, its owners have announced, confirming the UK's largest subsidy-free solar4 project to date is...

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