FSF – set up by Foresight Group to target UK assets and listed in a£150m ($252m) London IPO – said the 16MW Pitworthy project is the last of four plantsacquired from SunEdison under a deal involving 55MW in total.

Foresight gave an update to investors as it emerged that Germanutility RWE will finance the building of the 37MW Kencot PV plant inOxfordshire, which FSF will acquire on completion.

The UK has swiftly emerged as a PV development hotspot, driven by ground-mountedprojects.

The UK government’s recently unveiled solar strategy aims to shiftthe emphasis to rooftop commercial-scale PV – a move analyst IHS said will helpspur installations of 2.5GW-3GW