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Every PPA helps: Tesco partners Low Carbon for 130GWh of solar

Every PPA helps: Tesco partners Low Carbon for 130GWh of solar

Published: 13 Nov 2020, 10:54 Image: Tesco. Tesco has a new partnership with renewable energy investor Low Carbon to create three new solar farms as it looks to ‘play its part’ in decarbonisation. The major sustainable energy project will help generate 130GWh of energy per year from the sites in Essex, Anglesey and Oxfordshire. This Power […]

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Wight Community Energy awarded ‘transformative’ £68k to further develop solar

Wight Community Energy awarded ‘transformative’ £68k to further develop solar

Published: 13 Nov 2020, 12:05 Image: Wight Community Energy. Wight Community Energy has been awarded £68,250 to develop a number of renewable energy projects including work on the Homestead solar farm at Shalfleet. The funding from independent trust Power to Change will allow the Isle of Wight-based group to work on monitoring and improving the

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Battery storage legislation officially changes allowing assets over 50MW to bypass national planning

Battery storage legislation officially changes allowing assets over 50MW to bypass national planning

Published: 13 Nov 2020, 12:59 Historically, batteries have been developed below 50MW – like Gresham House Energy Storage Fund’s 40MW Glassenbury site (pictured) – due to the length and cost of the NSIP process. Image: Gresham House. Planning law in the UK allowing energy storage projects over 50MW has officially changed, allowing much bigger projects

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Downing Renewables & Infrastructure Trust sheds light on seed solar portfolio in Prospectus

Published: 13 Nov 2020, 14:47 Image: DORE. Downing Renewables & Infrastructure Trust (DORE) has published its Prospectus after outlining plans to raise £200 million earlier this month. This funding is to be raised via a placing, offer of subscription and an intermediaries offer of ordinary shares of 1p each in the capital of the company

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CalCCA: California CCAs Have Signed 6,000 MW in Long-Term Clean Energy PPAs

The California Community Choice Association (CalCCA) says community choice aggregators (CCAs) in the state have to date signed long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) for more than 6,000 MW with new-build clean energy resources. The total includes almost 5,000 MW in executed renewable energy PPAs – an increase of 1,700 MW compared to a year ago

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DOE Selects New Projects to Advance Solar Technologies

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has made selections for $130 million in new projects to advance solar technologies. Through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Solar Energy Technologies Office, DOE will fund 67 research projects across 30 states that reduce the cost of solar, increase U.S. manufacturing competitiveness and improve the

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