05 December 2008, Financial Times

Sainsbury buys power from generator

J Sainsbury has become the first company in Britain to sign an electricity supply contract directly with a generator, agreeing to take all the power from a new 6MW wind farm to be built near Glasgow.

Although the project is small, the companies involved believe it is a model that could open up energy supply markets to greater competition and stimulate renewable energy.

Sainsbury has signed the deal with A7 Lochhead, a small wind farm developer backed by Ventus, a venture capital fund managed by Climate Change Capital.



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