UK supermarket giant Tesco has signed a deal to fit solar modules on the rooftops of its stores.

The UK’s largest grocery retailer agreed an initial 1MW of deployments at its facilities, with a total of about 5MW of PV foreseen under a framework agreement with renewables investor SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust (SEEIT), said the latter.

Tesco will sign power purchase agreements for each PV deployment with SEEIT, which will own the solar modules and handle O&M.

No further details are available over the number of Tesco facilities involved, said SEEIT.

On-site generation of renewable power is becoming an increasingly attractive option for major corporates as they seek to meet green energy goals.