Lightsource BP
Lightsource BP is a global market leader in the development, acquisition and long-term management of international large-scale solar projects and smart energy solutions. Our projects generate competitively-priced, dependable, clean energy for businesses and communities.
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- Business Type:
- Service provider
- Industry Type:
- Solar Energy
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
About Us
Lightsource BP is a global market leader in the development, acquisition and long-term management of large-scale solar projects and smart energy solutions. Our projects generate competitively-priced, dependable, clean energy for businesses and communities.
At our core we have always excelled as a utility-scale solar project developer, with incredibly strong in-house planning and development capabilities. Unlike our competitors, we are the owner as well as the planner, developer, operator, and manager.
We firmly believe that the delivery of solar alongside smart energy solutions will play a major role in the future of global energy.
Team
Our team has 350 experts that make sure your experience is right from the moment you make contact and throughout the process.
A dynamic leader and entrepreneur, Nick Boyle is founder and CEO of Lightsource Renewable Energy. Nick, from County Antrim, is well known in the solar industry for his success in marrying retail financial products to low-risk, predictable investment revenue, generated by utility-scale solar PV projects. Nick’s pioneering vision along with the support of a dynamic and experienced in-house team has seen Lightsource become Europe’s largest solar PV developer and operator, and a world leader in pioneering solar projects. Lightsource operates more than 1 Gigawatt of solar projects, which generate enough clean energy for over 330,000 local households with a significant pipeline currently under construction. These achievements are a testament to Nick’s innate ability to identify opportunities and build on them. Prior to his current role, Nick sat at Board and Senior Director level in a number of leading retail financial service companies.
We Care
We work hard to ensure that our projects become home-grown assets that local communities can be proud of. We consult regularly as part of the development process and seek mutual benefits where this is possible. On many sites animal farming can sit side-by-side with a solar generating plant. The area enclosed by our sites also create havens for wildlife to live undisturbed, including endangered flowers and insects. Some sites are so suitable for bees that we even make our own Lightsource BP honey!
Lightsource BP takes its role as an industry leader very seriously. We wholly believe that sustainability and social responsibility is crucial for long-term business success. Over the last six years, we have crafted a set of guiding principles by which we conduct our developments and foster our long-term relationships with local communities and all our partners.
Careful consideration is given to the way in which our solar projects are constructed. Environmental impact assessments play a key part in ensuring our projects integrate harmoniously into their surroundings.
Lightsource BP adheres to the ISO 9001 standard, which sets out the criteria for a quality management system and is based on a number of quality management principles including a strong customer focus, the motivation and implication of top management, the process approach and continual improvement.
Since 2014, Lightsource BP has supported the community of Koh Krolor in Cambodia. Through payroll giving, we donated £100,000 to Koh Krolor last year alone. The project has produced meaningful, lasting change for the families and children of the 40 villages in Koh Krolor district, directly benefitting more than 11,000 people.