BT has signed long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) worth GBP 440M with three wind farms in Scotland, Wales and Lancashire. The deals will secure more than 100MW of renewable energy to help power its UK operations.
The energy will be supplied from the 48-turbine Fallago Rig wind farm located 35km southeast of Edinburgh in the Scottish Borders, the new Heysham South Wind Farm in Lancashire and nine-turbine Mynydd Bwllfa Wind farm in South Wales. BT will purchase 50% of Fallago Rig’s output, enough to match the power consumption of its entire Scottish operations, in a deal worth around GBP 300M over the next two decades. Its 15-year, GBP 100M agreement with Mynydd Bwllfa will provide enough electricity to match around 50% of BT’s demand in Wales. BT has also secured a 15-year deal to purchase electricity generated by the new Heysham South Wind Farm in Lancashire, worth around GBP 40M.
The PPAs with BT support the construction of both the Welsh and Lancashire sites. Pennant Walters is currently building Mynydd Bwllfa, near Hirwaun, whilst developers, The Banks Group, will start construction of the three-turbine Heysham South wind farm, near Lancaster, over the next few months.
