The deal with ubitricity will last for ten years, helping meet the power demand of its 14,600 public charging points in the UK.
July 3, 2026
UK public charging network ubitricity and oil and gas giant Shell have signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) to supply the former with electricity from the latter’s Iddenshall solar farm.
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. The shift from REGOs to a direct PPA means that the network will be supplied directly by a UK solar project, and ubitricity CEO Alexander Reinhardt said this shift would create “an even closer connection to our energy source”.
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“I am pleased we have signed our first power purchase agreement for ~16GWh per year,” said Reinhardt. “Whilst the ubitricity network has historically been powered by 100% REGOs certified renewable energy, we are proud to have an even closer connection to our energy source and supply the UK ubitricity network with renewable energy from a UK-based solar farm.”
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.
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