A huge £12m facility being built as part of a major expansion of Bristol's Bottle Yard Studios will be powered by giant solar panels, it has been announced.
TBY2 - as it has been dubbed - will have the biggest community-owned solar rooftop array in the South West, and it will be one of the biggest of its kind in the UK, the studios said.
Consisting of more than 2,000 panels, the solar array is being funded by the latest share offer of the Bristol Energy Cooperative (BEC). The offer closed at the end of June, attracting £1.3m from more than 478 investors. According to the BEC, the amount of energy the solar panels are capable of generating could power more than 250 average Bristol households per year.
