British Solar Renewables (BSR) has announced that it has taken over the Little Crow Solar and Storage project from INRG.
The project, which is located in Lincolnshire, will have a 150 MWp solar installation plus a 60 MW battery energy storage system (BESS).
The project, which is classified as a nationally important infrastructure project (NSIP) because of the size of the sun section of the development, received the planning allocation through the planning inspection in 2022, the second Zonne -NSIP to get permission under the system. The development also achieved a contract for difference (CFD) in the most recent auction, allocation of round 6, which took place in the autumn 2024.
After this transaction, Little Crow is now the largest site in the BSR portfolio. BSR will build and operate the project; No date before the beginning or the completion of the construction has yet been revealed.
Law firm JLL, which advised INRG on the sale of the project, noted that this was the first NSIP transaction in the UK advisor, and added that this emphasizes the increasing duration of the British solar market and the strong demand for large-scale Nisp activa.
Tim Humpage, CEO of BSR, said that the company was ‘happy’ to have reached the milestone to take Little Crow as a BSR project, adding that the company is delighted to ‘see it completely coming to life through our design and construction’.
BSRs 700 MW ambition
BSR has set an ambitious objective to build and operate 700 MW of renewable energy capacity by 2027 and worked on this target for a large part of last year. The company provided a building permit for four solar developments in 2024, spread throughout the United Kingdom and with different sizes.
The company landed planning permission for the 21MWP Park Farm Solar Park in May 2024, with a building permit for the balanced city farm Solar Park in January. Both will be in the Graafschap Suffolk.
In June, permission was given for the Dengie Solar Park, a 19mw solar development in Essex, after he had been given permission for the first attempt to secure the building permit in 2023. At the end of 2024, BSR insured a building permit for another solar development, in December that it had awarded in December for a second Essex-based park, the 49.9MW Knowl Green Solar Park in Braintree.
Last June BSR also saw his first portfolio financing increase completed. The facility was completed by a portfolio of five asset between the VK and Australia with a combined solar generation of 132 GWH per year and was financed by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Lloyds Bank.
