Lightsource Renewable Energy connected 23 new sites in December totalling more than 100MW of new capacity.
The company plans to connect a further 14 ground-mount sites totalling 92MW by 31 March to take its total installed capacity in the UK to 1.3GW.
It added that because of recent UK government changes to the solar subsidy mechanism, Lightsource will be installing and connecting its first subsidy-free sites in 2016.
“The Lightsource private-wire power purchase agreement will see large-scale solar sites “hard-wired” directly into large electricity users – comfortably beating the retail price that they are paying for electricity,” the company said.
Lightsource chief executive officer Nick Boyle said: “Despite the cloud of uncertainty hanging over the industry in recent months, we’ve seen a great many successes in 2015 and this latest round of connections is a great way for us to end the year.
“We are certainly no stranger to tough deadlines and difficult weather conditions, but it’s a huge testament to the capabilities of our in-house teams that we are able to complete such a mammoth task in a very short period of time.”
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