Anesco has acquired the 36MWp Beachampton solar farm project from One Planet Developments.
The company said the scheme was developed by One Planet in partnership with Viridi Re Development, Solar Ambition Europe and the landowner Kingwell.
Once operational, it will generate enough electricity to power about 9000 homes while avoiding an estimated 5700 tonnes of carbon emissions per year.
Planning permission was granted by Buckinghamshire Council on 12 January 2024, with the project due to connect to National Grid Electricity Distribution in early 2027.
As part of the approved plans, the solar farm will deliver biodiversity net gains including hedgerow enhancements and new woodland trees.
Anesco chief executive Hildagarde McCarville said: “This acquisition is another step forward in our mission to help accelerate the UK’s transition to secure and sustainable, low carbon energy – something that has seen us successfully energise more than 1.1GW of solar and storage assets to date.”
McCarville added: “Having established a strong pipeline of solar and BESS projects ourselves, we are excited to further enhance and expand it through strategic partnerships such as this.”
One Planet business development director James Stoney said: “We are delighted to have sold another ready to build solar farm project.”
Stoney stated: “One Planet has planning consent for 100MW of solar across two sites with a further five projects totalling 223MW in planning and development. It also has three consented Battery Energy Storage sites totalling 500MW. We look forward to further sales of our 800MW portfolio over the coming year”.
Kingwell founder Alistair Emery said: “One Planet have been excellent partners to work with in realising this exciting project on our farm at Beachampton and we are now delighted to be progressing its delivery with Anesco.”
Emery added: “Not only does it play an important part in the diversification of our wider farm business, it also meets our ambitions to enhance the environmental quality of our land holdings through improving biodiversity whilst producing low carbon renewable energy.”