EDF Renewables and The Macallan Property have been given the inexperienced mild for a photo voltaic undertaking to additional decarbonise the house of the well-known whisky.
Native companions have signed off on the 4MW renewables undertaking which is able to assist slash the emissions of The Macallan’s single malt Scotch whisky in Craigellachie.
The bottom-mounted photo voltaic panels have the aptitude of offering half of the distillery’s daytime electrical energy wants, equating to round 30% of annual power demand.
Rachel Walters, Operations Director at The Macallan commented: “The Macallan Property has been our house for almost 200 years, and we have now all the time had an inherent respect for the pure world that surrounds us.
“The introduction of photo voltaic panels at The Macallan Property is the most recent initiative designed to assist us construct a extra sustainable future, complementing the distillery’s present biomass set-up and can work in tandem with different initiatives to speed up our web zero targets.”
Situated in Speyside, The Macallan Property sits amongst 485 acres of land and has been the house of the whisky model for almost 200 years.
That is the primary industrial and industrial photo voltaic undertaking of its sort that EDF Renewables UK has developed in Scotland and the planning purposes for it concerned a landscaping scheme to minimise the visible affect of the event and improve current wildlife habitats.
Deanna Greenhalgh, Director of Improvement inside EDF Renewables UK’s industrial and industrial photo voltaic enterprise, SAS Vitality, mentioned: “We’re delighted to be working with The Macallan Property to ship this renewables undertaking.
“The undertaking will assist decarbonise the Distillery’s operations, scale back power prices in an ever extra unsure power surroundings and cleared the path in exhibiting how the whisky trade can try in direction of attaining web zero targets.
“It’s an thrilling undertaking for EDF Renewables as certainly one of our first industrial and industrial photo voltaic initiatives in Scotland.”
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