Solar

Wiltshire Council has approved Eden Renewables’ 49.9MW Forest Gate solar farm, which includes collocated battery energy storage. The council approved the site by a majority vote of six to three. Forest Gate solar farm will be built on a site next to the A4 in Wiltshire, east of Chippenham, and connected to the Chippenham sub-station, […]

Published: 7 Mar 2023, 15:40 City Building executive director Alan Burns with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon officially opening the new college alongside apprentices who will be based there. Image: City Building. Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has officially opened what is said to be one of Scotland’s “most sustainably built colleges”, featuring a 26.22kW solar

Published: 6 Mar 2023, 10:56 The 66,000-seater 2012 Olympic stadium, which is now home to West Ham United, could soon install a solar PV membrane on its roof. Image: LLDC. The 66,000-seater 2012 Olympic stadium, which is now home to West Ham United, could soon install a solar PV membrane on its roof. Set to

Good Energy completed its first solar installation via its Igloo Works branch. Image: Kevin Phillips (Public Domain Pictures). Clean energy company Good Energy has recognised a growing appetite for solar generation with over 250,000 UK-based households considering a solar installation by 2026. Running alongside this statistic, Good Energy also said that across 2022, solar installations

Published: 3 Mar 2023, 10:04 The 10-year PPA will see the c.67MW Breach solar farm cover 14% of Iceland’s electricity needs for its UK stores. Image: Octopus Investments. Octopus Energy’s generation arm has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the UK food retailer, Iceland Foods, to provide 150 of its sites with an estimated

German energy giant RWE is planning to invest €50 billion gross to grow its green business by 2030. Image: RWE. German energy giant RWE has acquired solar and storage developer JBM Solar, making it a “top three solar developer” in the UK. The acquisition sees the company take on a mature pipeline of around 6.1GWac of

Published: 1 Mar 2023, 16:28 With shares starting at £25, co-ownership presents a cost-effective alternative to owning renewable energy assets, such as Ripple’s Graig Fatha wind turbine. Image: Ripple Energy. Almost a year after Ripple Energy’s first consumer-owned wind farm went live, the company has announced that its third shared renewable energy project will be

Bluefield’s solar generation yield increased by 9.6% to 462.55MWh compared to the same reporting period in FY 2021/22. Image: Bluefield. Bluefield Solar’s gains from fixed Power Purchase Agreement (PPA)prices will be largely offset by the new windfall tax on low-carbon generation, it said in its report for the second half of 2022.  The renewable energy and

Published: 27 Feb 2023, 10:57 Boom Power to put over 1GW of solar and BESS projects into planning in 2023. Image: Boom Power. UK-based solar developer Boom Power has confirmed that over 1GW of its solar and battery energy storage projects will go into planning over the course of 2023. Controbuting to this portfolio, the

Published: 24 Feb 2023, 11:20 Nylaplas Engineering installed a 114kWp solar panel system at its high-technology manufacturing site in Bristol in 2022. Image: Solarsense. Solarsense has reported a 400% increase in the number of commercial enquiries it has had for solar installations from the manufacturing sector in 2022. The company noted that there was rising