Pathfinder Clean Energy (PACE), the UK-headquartered international developer of utility scale solar and battery storage projects, has secured planning permission for its 21MWp Burgate solar farm, located eight miles north of Norwich.

The Burgate solar farm will provide enough power for the equivalent of 6,800 UK households and will reduce CO2 emissions by 4,900 tonnes annually.

Alex Ross, Director of PACE Developments in the UK said: ‘PACE UK is delighted to achieve another planning success at Burgate. The Covid pandemic created additional challenges to the team but we overcame these through our use of technology and we can now focus towards a construction start.”

PACE currently has a development pipeline of over 1GW of solar projects in the UK, Canada, Spain and Poland.

Rob Denman, Managing Director of PACE, said: ‘PACE is really gathering momentum and we are now active across three continents – Europe, Africa and North America. We have been active in Spain for some time and are pursuing project opportunities in Poland. In May, our PACE Technical team secured a project design contract in Cape Verde, and in June our Development team secured consent for a solar farm in Alberta, Canada. We are advancing towards construction starts for our lead projects within the next 6-10 months.

“With the volatility of clean energy markets and markets generally, our broad geographical presence provides PACE with the ability to manage risks and make sure our experienced team is always involved in market leading projects. With our new team in Poland also starting to gain a strong foothold, we look forward to many more successes through the year and into 2022.”.

About Pathfinder Clean Energy (PACE)
Pathfinder Clean Energy (PACE) is an international clean energy developer and investor. The company was co-founded by Rob Denman and Alex Ross in 2017. The company has since grown to a team of 16 across UK, Europe and Canada – all with extensive experience in the clean energy sector, both in the UK and overseas.

PACE’s team brings over 40 years and 1GW of experience from across the asset cycle – from development to financing, construction and operation.

PACE uses the latest cloud-based proprietary technology to collaborate across global markets and projects to enable its projects to deliver competitive power prices under merchant power models, PPAs or bids into government auctions.

PACE’s understanding and management of the complete life cycle of a project provides a route to deploying capital at scale and across multiple international clean energy markets.

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For communications related to this announcement:

Paul Taylor, Taylor Keogh Communications – +44 (0)20 8392 8250 / paul@taylorkeogh.com or press@pathfinder.com

For PACE general enquiries:

Pathfinder Clean Energy – Contact: Ben Chippendale

Tel +44 (0)20 7127 4542

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