The acquisition marks egg Power’s third major UK solar project, meeting Europe’s surging clean energy demand from telecommunications and digital infrastructure companies – driven by AI and other data-heavy applications.
Construction at the solar farm outside Norwich will start in January 2026, with operations beginning in early 2027. Once online it will generate 70 megawatts of clean energy – enough to power 21,000 homes - to Liberty Global’s operating companies, affiliates and partners in the UK, helping to lower energy costs and carbon emissions.
Other major UK projects in the egg Power portfolio include Rainsbrook, a 20 MW solar farm acquired in July 2025 and Rag Lane, a 52 MW solar farm acquired in November 2024 and currently under construction and on schedule to become operational in spring 2026. Together these projects have a combined capacity of 140 MW of clean energy, generating approximately 150 GWh per annum by the end of 2026.
Ilesh Patel, who leads the egg Power business at Liberty Global, said, “The Grange solar farm is our largest acquisition to date and represents a key milestone in our journey towards a greener future as we develop, build, own and operate energy projects and services to provide low-cost clean energy to our customers through Corporate Power Purchase Agreements.
"It means we are well on our way to our goal of 1,000 MW of renewable energy projects in operation by 2028. We thank our strategic partner PS Renewables for the development to date of Grange solar farm.”
The projects, which leverage Liberty Global’s expertise in financing large-scale infrastructure, investing in scale-up businesses and serving B2B customers, will also deliver tangible local benefits. These include creating jobs during construction and operations, sourcing from local supply chains, ecological improvements such as planting native grasslands and wildflower meadows, reinforcing hedgerows and establishing habitat strips on site.
