Worldwide renewable energy company Low Carbon has agreed a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with a luxury hotel chain Maybourne, which drives the Maybourne hotels with 100% clean solar energy.
The 15-year-old PPA that has been agreed between the two companies will see Maybourne with a low carbon supply with 32 GWH senon energy per year, which will supply 100% of London hotels of Maybourne with clean energy. The energy used to provide the hotels with power, including top luxury hotels, the Berkeley, the Connaught, the Emory and Claridge’s, comes from Low Carbon’s Maldon Wycke Solar Farm.
The Maldon Wycke Solar PV Power Plant is a development of 25 MW about 1 km outside the city of Maldon, Essex, which connects to the schedule via the Maldon substation. According to Low Carbon, the project generates around 24,900 MWh per year.
Respond to the announcement, founder and chief executive of Low Carbon, Roy Bedlow, said today: the announcement of today confirms that we the London hotels of Maybourne with 100% renewable energy market, a new step forward in the journey of Low Carbon to one To become a leading independent power producer (IPP) and shows our dedication to deliver renewable energy sources to scale and combating climate change. “
Roland Fasel, Group Chief Operating Officer at Maybourne, added: “In Maybourne we acknowledge the crucial role that the hospitality industry must play in achieving Net Zero and we strive to make consistent changes. We are proud that we have worked in collaboration with Low Carbon to ensure that 100% of the electricity is provided for our London hotels through renewable energy. It is important, now more than ever, that we leave the right footprint for our guests and colleagues by maximizing our ESG strategy ”.
Will 2025 be a large year for low carbon?
This is the not the first large PPA announcement Low Carbon has made so far in 2025. In January the company announced that it had inked a PPA with the developer of Quebec-based carbon removal project Diep Sky. Under the 10-year-old PPA, Low Carbon will supply the deep heaven with 10 GWH energy per year of his Lethbridge 1 Solar Project in Canada to the first facility of Deep Sky in Alberta, Canada.
Looking ahead throughout the year, a considerable amount of attention will be paid to low carbon, because it starts with the development of a newly announced nationally significant infrastructure project (NSIP) proposal. In November last year, the company announced that it was in the early stages of development on project proposals for the 500 MW South Kent Energy Park, and he started the first phase of community range. The first community advice phase for the project closed at the end of December, and further outreach is expected to take place in 2025. The project will combine 500 MW of Solar generation capacity with a battery energy storage system (BESS), although the proposed Bess capacity has not been unveiled.
