Claydons Solar Action Group

18/09/2026

Europe's Biggest Independent Solar Operator Just Went Bankrupt
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Europes-Biggest-Independent-Solar-Operator-Just-Went-Bankrupt.html

The soaring wind and solar capacity installations in Germany have created an unsustainable business and project economics environment in the sector amid slower grid expansion and electricity generation curtailments.

In 2023, Germany crossed the 50% mark of the share of renewable energy in its electricity generation.

This year, renewable energy accounted for a record-high 58% of Germany’s electricity consumption in the first half, up from 55.8% for the same period last year, estimates by industry associations ZSW and BDEW showed in July.

Germany is looking to boost its solar and wind power generation sectors with ambitious goals and legislative changes to ease and streamline the permitting processes. Europe’s biggest economy has a target to install 10 gigawatts (GW) of wind power capacity every year to have renewables account for 80% of its electricity generation in 2030.

While Germany makes progress in its renewable energy capacity additions, some wind and solar energy developers and operators have filed for insolvency in recent weeks amid piling debts.

The capacity increase has outpaced the upgrades and expansions of the grids, which have delayed the connection of some solar and wind power projects to the grid. Additionally, the curtailment of wind and solar output when generation soars forces the electricity generators to reduce renewable energy generation, leading to losses for the wind farm and solar park operators. Spiking renewable power generation also often leads to below-zero day-to-day prices, further weighing on the economics of the projects.

And some developers have struggled to survive.

Just last week, Enerparc AG, one of Europe’s largest solar park operators, filed for insolvency in a Hamburg court. Operations will continue at Enerparc’s solar sites while the provisional insolvency administrators work “to stabilize business operations and the group companies,” the solar developer said.

Enerparc has 5.5 gigawatts (GW) of installed capacity—3.8 GW of which are connected to the grid—and more than 500 solar parks, making it one of Europe’s largest independent solar park owners.

Earlier this summer, German solar and wind developer SoWiTec announced insolvency due to excessive debt.

The worsening project economics could lead to more insolvencies in the near term, Jens Burchardt, co-founder of Boston Consulting Group’s Center for Climate and Sustainability, told Bloomberg.

“Efficient, diversified developers will still make money, just not the kind of money they made during the energy-crisis years,” Burchardt noted.

By Charles Kennedy for Oilprice.com

14/09/2026

THIS IS WHY WE SHOULD NOT BE PUTTING SOLAR ON FOOD-PRODUCING LAND! https://www.farminguk.com/news/uk-food-self-sufficiency-falls-in-10-of-11-everyday-staples_69107.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawUUvJ9wZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMTZ3eE56T2l0QUFOZFZReDdzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeCok4-7-vHvbvtOBP6lenm_RCI-6QfG3UZgPld9pWAJWApdZM1-Y90_AehCY_aem_GUhWZIRZZ13u3biB7xPVQQ

Britain is becoming increasingly reliant on imported food, with self-sufficiency falling across 10 of 11 everyday staples over the past 30 years.

12/09/2026

Even 9 year old’s realise what Solar will do to our countryside! This is a local girl who has grown up surrounded by green fields and crops.

12/09/2026

An interesting read……

What happens when a council pours hundreds of millions of pounds into solar investments — and the whole structure collapses?

Thurrock Council invested around £655 million in Toucan Energy. Toucan later entered administration. According to Thurrock’s latest public figures, around £525 million has so far been recovered, leaving roughly £130 million still unrecovered, although the council says further recoveries may yet be made.

Then came the extraordinary second act.

Toucan’s portfolio of 53 operating solar farms was sold for around £700 million — and among the major investors backing the acquiring fund structure were six Local Government Pension Scheme funds.

So public-sector money helped finance the solar empire on the way in.

After its collapse, public-sector pension capital helped finance ownership of the same solar assets on the way out.

Meanwhile the solar farms remained in place, the investment managers continued to earn fees and returns were still expected from the assets.

This is why we need to follow the money behind Net Zero.

The council worker pays into a pension. The pension fund invests in infrastructure. The infrastructure fund owns renewable assets. Landowners receive rent. Investors seek returns. The same worker then goes home and pays an electricity bill.

And in Thurrock’s case, local taxpayers were left dealing with the consequences of one of the biggest local-authority investment disasters in modern Britain.

Your Pension, Their Solar Farm

Read the full investigation:
http://hopetosaveourcountryside.com/2026/09/07/your-pension-their-solar-farm/

04/09/2026

This ring any bells with our landowner??

🚨 THE FARMER LOSES THE LAND. THE LANDOWNER GETS THE SOLAR DEAL.

We keep being told that “farmers are cashing in from solar.”

But what if the farmer DOESN’T own the land?

At Eden Farm in Old Malton, a farming family whose connection with the land stretches back to 1954 faces losing around 110 acres — almost half of its tenanted holding — to a 40-year solar development.

And this isn't simply campaign rhetoric.

The Planning Inspector found the scheme would cause “irreversible detriment” to an existing successful agricultural business.

The farmer opposed the development.

The council rejected it.

Yet the Government ultimately approved it.

And North Yorkshire Council's own planning report acknowledged that the longer-term economic benefits would accrue mainly to the landowner, while farming activity and the agricultural economy would suffer.

That destroys one of the easiest arguments used against those of us fighting industrial-scale solar:

“The farmers want it because they're making a fortune.”

Sometimes they aren't.

Sometimes the person receiving the solar deal and the person actually farming the land are two completely different people.

And there is another extraordinary dimension to this story.

The corporate freeholder identified by the farming family is Fitzwilliam Trust Corporation Ltd. Companies House records show that Helena Rees-Mogg, wife of Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, is an active director of that company.

That does not prove that Sir Jacob owns the land, negotiated the solar agreement or receives income from it — and my article makes that distinction very clearly.

But given Sir Jacob's outspoken opposition to Net Zero, it is a corporate connection that deserves scrutiny and an explanation.

This case should make every MP, councillor and member of the public ask a very simple question the next time somebody says:

“Farmers are cashing in from solar.”

👉 Which farmer?

The person who owns the land?

Or the person whose family has spent generations actually farming it?

Because when tenant farmers lose their land, Britain doesn't simply lose acreage.

We lose farming businesses, food-producing capacity, family succession and another piece of our countryside.

Please read and share this investigation 👇

http://hopetosaveourcountryside.com/2026/09/03/the-farmer-loses-the-land-the-landowner-gets-the-solar-deal/

04/09/2026

In the latest Claydon Estate Newsletter from Nicholas Verney:

“For more than 20 years, the Verney Foundation - which is independent of Claydon Estate, though the Estate supports much of its administration - has supported charities and good causes across communities local to Claydon and further afield across Buckinghamshire.

The latest round of grant recipients reflect the Foundation's long-standing commitment to helping people and places thrive, including Furze Down School a specialist school in Winslow, The Country Trust's Food Discovery Programme and local nursery The Circle Centre.”

If they are doing some good in our local communities, how come they are completely ruining our Claydons countryside all around Botolph and East Claydon by taking land from our tenant farmers and businesses and leasing to EDF - for the huge Rosefield Solar ‘Industrial’ farm!

Comments please!!

03/09/2026

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7903w0z28zo

03/09/2026

Botley West Solar Farm decision delayed again. Perhaps the government are beginning to realise they are making a huge mistake letting these happen!

The government delays its decision on the Botley West solar farm proposals until November.

03/09/2026

https://www.energylivenews.com/2026/09/03/uk-battery-storage-is-at-risk-of-cyber-attacks/

Greg Smith MP Callum Anderson MP

A study has found that there is a 93% probability of danger in the next five years