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SSE is folding its 100-strong solar and battery team, which up until now has been incubated in the group’s Enterprise division, into SSE Renewables.
The company said the move will help the solar and battery business to grow in scale, while also enabling SSE Renewables to benefit from the team’s expertise.
The solar and battery business currently has a 2GW pipeline of projects in the UK and Ireland.
Finlay McCutcheon, director of onshore renewables in Europe for SSE Renewables, said: “The people, plans and pipeline solar and battery already have in place is impressive and we can collectively scale up our combined ambitions to grow our market share in both technologies.
“I’m extremely excited by the opportunity to both support the team’s delivery at scale and to leverage the critical expertise our SSE colleagues have built up in solar and batteries across our wider development teams and pipelines.”
He continued: “Both solar and battery technology complement our offerings in onshore wind and hydro and bring us greater portfolio diversity. Solar is now a cost-effective low carbon technology with huge potential in its markets both domestically and internationally; and battery storage is a key part of the net zero jigsaw, thanks to its ability to store and discharge energy when most needed by the grid.”
The solar and battery team will continue to be led by director Richard Cave-Bigley, who said: “Now, as part of SSE Renewables, we will have a combined team with shared ambitions, all of whom are committed to working together to grow our near 2GW solar and battery pipeline as we expand beyond the UK and Ireland and into Europe.”
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