The Iddenshall solar farm was initially developed by Anesco, with a capacity of 17.6MW, and Shell first announced plans to acquire the project in 2022, as part of a wider initiative to acquire 100MW of solar capacity from the developer.
July 3, 2026
Oil and gas giant Shell has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with UK public charging network ubitricity to supply the company with electricity generated at its Iddenhsall solar project, which is currently under development in Cheshire.
The Iddenshall solar farm was initially developed by Anesco, with a capacity of 17.6MW, and Shell first announced plans to acquire the project in 2022, as part of a wider initiative to acquire 100MW of solar capacity from the developer. The deal with ubitricity will last for ten years, helping meet the power demand of its 14,600 public charging points in the UK. The charging network operator said that the deal would see “a significant portion” of its total UK electricity demand met with solar power.
The ubitricity network is currently powered by sources that have Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin (REGOs), meaning the electricity used on its network is matched with equivalent volumes of electricity sourced from UK renewable energy projects.
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Shell expects to start commercial operations at the Iddenshall project this summer; until the project starts generating electricity, ubitricity will be supplied power from Shell Energy Europe’s other UK solar assets. Shell has a total operational portfolio of around 1.7GW across Europe, and was last year selected by Google to oversee the supply of power to one of its new data centres in the UK.
Shell has also involved itself in the battery energy storage system (BESS) sector. Last year, BW ESS CEO Erik Strømsø spoke to Solar Power Portal about a seven-year tolling agreement that had been signed with Shell for the Bramley BESS project, citing it as an example of the companies' work in the increasingly mature UK BESS sector.
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