Keele University signed Renewable Energy Partnership
21 December 2020
Keele University has signed a new partnership managed and financced by ENGIE, to support the University's pledge to be carbon neutral by 2030. Under the new partnership the university is set to install two wind turbines and 15,000 solar panels.
ENGIE, a leading energy and services company focused on producing and supplying low-carbon energy, has agreed a 25-year deal with Keele University to fund, design, build and operate a multi-technology energy park that will generate up to 50% of the University’s campus electricity requirements from renewable sources.
The University’s new low carbon energy project will see the development of two wind turbines, an industrial size battery for storing the generated energy, and 15,000 solar photo-voltaic (PV) panels installed at ground level in fields on the edge of the campus which will be managed and financed by ENGIE.
After installation, the renewables will provide up to 50% of the campus electricity needs and the combined carbon emissions savings from the wind and solar farm will be around 1,500 tonnes per year – the equivalent of taking 800 cars off the road.
Excess electricity will be fed back to the local grid providing zero carbon energy to the local area, and the battery will help to balance the local and national electricity networks.
The partnership with ENGIE represents part of the University’s response to the climate change agenda through the subsidy-free provision of clean, renewable energy, as part of its ambitious pledge to become carbon neutral by 2030.
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