Developers ready for ‘exciting’ solar park project at Carmyllie
ByDamon Rhind
BWE Partnership owner Ron Shanks with Robert and Brenda Jackson who farm at New Mains of Guynd.
Work on Scotland’s largest solar park will start later this year in Angus, developers have said.
Aberdeen-based BWE Partnership will build a 9.5-megawatt, ground-mounted photovoltaic (PV) park on a 50-acre site at New Mains of Guynd in Carmyllie, Arbroath.
It will have the potential to power around 6,670 homes, or a town equivalent to the size of Montrose, and will be located on land leased from Robert and Brenda Jackson who farm at the site to the east of Dundee.
Planning permission was granted by Angus Council last October.
Ron Shanks, owner of BWE Partnership, said: “This is an exciting time for BWE Partnership as we enter the construction stage of delivering what we believe is Scotland’s first large commercial solar park.”
The solar park is on schedule to be constructed and generating electricity by early next year.
Kevin Jackson, a partner on the family farm in Arbroath, said: “I am delighted that New Mains of Guynd is playing a key part in this large scale development for renewables in Scotland.”
Developers ready for ‘exciting’ solar park project at Carmyllie
