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Published: 22 Sep 2021, 16:43 Renewco’s chair Gary Le Sueur and CEO Gavin McCallum. Image: Renewco Power. A new renewables firm with the backing of SSE has been launched with a focus on the roll-out of large-scale solar and wind farms across the UK and Europe. Edinburgh-based Renewco Power is targeting the development of more […]

Published: 22 Sep 2021, 12:13 The 99.8MW BESS forms part of a 1.1GW portfolio. Image: Pacific Green Technologies Pacific Green Technologies is to finance the construction of its 99.8MW battery energy storage system with £23 million of debt financing. This is being provided from UK merchant banking group Close Leasing Limited, with the financing expected

Published: 21 Sep 2021, 10:49 By: The cost of shipping modules has soared in recent months, caused largely by a shortage of containers. Image: Luke Price/Flickr All signs point to growing solar installations this year, with up to 191GW expected to be deployed, but reaching that figure won’t be without its challenges as procurement remains

Gore Street now has a portfolio of 577MW of operating or under construction projects in the UK and Ireland, including Lower Road (pictured). Image: Gore Street. Gore Street Energy Storage Fund has acquired a 57MW construction-ready energy storage project in Leicester. All land rights, grid connections and planning consents have been secured for the project,

Gresham House’s Glassenbury battery energy storage asset. Image: Gresham House Gresham House Energy Storage Fund has seen the EBITDA generated by its portfolio soar to £22.4 million in the first half of this year, jumping from £4.5 million in H1 2020. This was largely driven by attractive frequency response services, representing 88.5% of the total,

Published: 17 Sep 2021, 10:56 NextEnergy’s move to diversify its portfolio builds on its 99 operating solar sites in the UK, including its 50MWp subsidy-free Staughton solar farm (pictured). Image: NextEnergy Solar Fund. NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) has signed a £100 million Joint Venture Partnership (JVP) with battery storage specialist Eelpower. Together they will look

Shoals Hook solar farm is one of 50 operational sites Foresight owns in the UK, along with one battery asset, four operational solar farms in Australia and four under construction in Spain. Image: Foresight. Rebounding power prices have driven Foresight Solar Fund’s results in the first half of 2021, with its net asset value (NAV)

Published: 15 Sep 2021, 12:22 Midsummer has relaunched the software with updated branding, following a wider company refresh in 2020. Image: Midsummer. Renewables distributor Midsummer has relaunched its solar design software Easy PV. The software integrates design, calculations, paperwork and ordering into one online package. As part of the relaunch, it now boasts an updated

Published: 14 Sep 2021, 12:43 The solar farm is being designed in the shape of a lion, to mirror the chalk lion that sits on the other side of the zoo. Image: ZSL Whipsnade. ZSL Whipsnade has unveiled plans for a lion shaped solar farm, in an effort to reduce the UK’s largest zoo’s carbon

This is the first auction solar and onshore wind have been able to compete in since 2015. Image: Getty A total of £265 million has been set aside for the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has today (13 September) revealed. However, of this just £10 million