Switch flicked on UK's "first solar business park"

Will Nichols
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Around 3,000 panels installed at an Oxfordshire business park - but scheme could be one of the country's last large-scale solar projects

A business park that counts the Environment Agency among its tenants claims to be the first to connect a large-scale, ground-mounted solar system to the grid - and it may also be one of the last given...

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