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The move, part of an ongoing diversification at EDF away from a “wind-centric” asset portfolio to include more PV, energy storage and electric vehicle charging infrastructure, comes as the C&I space is expected to rebound after the economic sideswipe resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Completing this acquisition was always ‘plan A’ but it is also part of a broader plan to diversify EDF from being a very wind-centric company, if you looked at us ten years ago, to a truly all-renewables player that as active on ‘both sides of the metre’ and goes from [C&I] and utility scale solar all the way to offshore wind in the gigawatt-scale,” Raphael Declercq, EDF Renewables’ EVP for distributed solutions and strategy, told