It has become pretty well established for utilities to offload the oddwind farm to free up space on their balance sheets.
There is no shortage of pension funds willing to do dealsonce the construction risks are safely out of the way.
For Centrica, which owns British Gas, the deal did havesome significance, however. It left the company with just one onshore wind asset in the whole of the UK: half of the small-fry 26MW Glens ofFoudland in Aberdeenshire, eastern Scotland.
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