EDF Renewables has acquired two consented solar farms in the UK totalling almost 100MW.
The 49.9MW Burwell project is in south-east Cambridgeshire, England, and has been acquired from AGR.
Porth Wen, also 49.9MW, is located in North Anglesey, Wales, and has been acquired from Countryside Renewables. It also has consent for a battery storage unit.
Both solar farms are expected to be completed by the end of 2022.
No details of the price of the transactions have been revealed.
EDF Renewables will work closely with local communities to make sure they are aware of what is happening on each project during the construction process.
Community benefit funds will be offered at each site in form of an annual £10,000 payment provided to the communities surrounding both projects to invest in local initiatives or people.
EDF Renewables will be making a number of biodiversity enhancements at each site.
At Burwell there will be more than one kilometre of new native species. Hedgerows and new five-metre wide reedbeds will be created along the perimeter of the site.
Porth Wen will be on 77 hectares of land that will still be able to be used for sheep grazing.
There’s also going to be a one-and-a-half km long wildlife corridor and wildflower planting.
EDF Renewables onshore and solar director Mark Vyvyan-Robinson said: “We are very happy to be adding these two excellent new projects to our growing solar portfolio.
“EDF Renewables is an experienced developer and we are firmly committed to solar as a technology which will help us accelerate a net zero future where clean energy powers all our lives.
“Investments like these are also contributing to the UK’s green economic recovery from Covid-19.”