Octopus Energy acquires renewables developer to boost British solar

Octopus Energy Group has announced the acquisition of Zestec Renewable Energy to build cheap solar power on British businesses’ roofs, helping to drive down energy bills.
Zestec is developing a pipeline of over 160MW of new UK solar energy, which will be sold to the organisations hosting the solar panels via power purchase agreements (PPA). This will allow SMEs, public sector organisations like schools and local councils, as well as large corporations to benefit from self-generated green p