On 31 October, the special purpose vehicle (SPV) Steeple Solar Farm Limited changed hands, with TotalEnergies taking it over from RES UK & Ireland.
November 13, 2026
French integrated energy and petroleum company TotalEnergies has acquired the Steeple Renewables Project from developer RES.
On 31 October, the special purpose vehicle (SPV) Steeple Solar Farm Limited changed hands, with TotalEnergies taking it over from RES UK & Ireland.
Steeple Renewables Project will comprise 450MW solar energy generation and a 150MW battery energy storage system (BESS). The Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) was granted a development consent order (DCO) in early October.
Due to be constructed in Nottinghamshire, the Steeple Renewables Project is located near the decommissioned West Burton Power Station and will use existing grid capacity and infrastructure in the area.
As seen in the image below, taken from Solar Media Market Research's new data platform, there are currently 14 assets connected to West Burton Substation (291MW), where the Steeple project will connect. There are another 17 projects in the pipeline across solar and battery storage due to connect there. West Burton is the seventh-largest progressed pipeline in the country, with four out of those seven largest grid supply points (GSPs) in the T5 zone.
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Source: Solar Media Market Research.
TotalEnergies did at one point have its own projects in the NSIP process: the 98MW Hedgehog Grove and 98MW North Ray Solar Farm projects. However, the capacity boundary that classifies NSIPs, requiring government approval and superseding local council planning authorities, changed to 100MW earlier this year. This saw the projects moved to be approved under the Town and Country Planning Act (TCPA), which TotalEnergies said “allows for a more locally focused consultation”.
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