Octopus Renewables swoops for 14 French solar farms in €59m deal

Cecilia Keating
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Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust inks deal to purchase 119.5MW subsidised solar portfolio as UK investor expands into French market

British clean energy investor Octopus Renewables continues to sweep up solar assets across Europe, with the firm's Infrastructure Trust today having inked a deal to purchase 14 subsidised solar plants...

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