Developing a commercial renewable energy project is a big decision, and one that can bring numerous benefits.

A great choice for diversification

It’s an opportunity to diversify your investments that, if your site it suitable and your technology is correctly installed, should offer you a healthy rate of return. It also allows you to ‘hedge’ your risk, and potentially benefit from the changes in the wholesale electricity market over the coming years. And if you have any demand for electricity onsite, it could reduce, or even eliminate your current energy bills too.

Increased energy security for the country

60% of the UK’s energy needs are currently met by imported power. This means we have little control over its availability and price. And that compromises our energy and therefore economic security.
Developed alongside home generation systems, large-scale renewable projects have the potential to help the UK become self-sufficient in its energy needs as well as underpin the beginning of a new, low carbon economy.

Helping to tackle climate change

Worldwide, burning fossil fuels to supply our energy needs – to heat our homes, grow our food and power our transport – contributes to almost three quarters of all manmade greenhouse gas emissions. The concentration of these gases in the earth’s atmosphere is higher than it has been at any time in the last 800,000 years, increasing the ‘greenhouse effect’ and causing our climate to change unnaturally.

The more renewable energy generation there is the less reliant we will be on burning polluting fossil fuels to meet our energy needs. Becoming a large-scale renewable energy generator is an opportunity to be one of the first to make a real difference to tackling climate change.