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Published: 1 Feb 2023, 16:13 Smart energy infrastructure business SMS announced it now has a combined 90MW of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in operation in Ipswich and Barnsley. The BESS projects are delivering energy to help balance the grid and provide additional flexibility services.  The 50MW project located at Brook Farm, near Ipswich, and the 40MW […]

Published: 31 Jan 2023, 12:48 Managing director at Strategic Power Projects, Paul Carson, praises the progress of Irish solar stating that it is “now beginning to move in the right direction”. Image: Strategic Power Projects. Strategic Power Projects’ (SPP) managing director Paul Carson has said that Ireland is “now beginning to move in the right

Published: 30 Jan 2023, 13:39 The Contego BESS project developed with Harmony Energy is one project included in the portfolio. Image: Harmony Energy. Renewable development company Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) has completed the financial close of a UK-based battery energy storage system (BESS) portfolio with a combined capacity of 133MW/266MWh. The transaction closed on 23

Published: 26 Jan 2023, 15:57 Gravitricity appoints Gneiss Energy to lead £40 million raise to spearhead energy storage projects. Image: Gravitricity. Energy storage company Gravitricity has appointed Gneiss Energy to support the development of a £40 million funding drive to spearhead the creation of three demonstrator projects for its technology in the next five years. Gravitricity’s

Roaring Hill project set to utilise Tesla Megapack lithium-ion batteries. Image: TagEnergy. TagEnergy has confirmed it has reached financial close on its fourth UK battery energy storage (BESS) facility with a capacity of 49.9MW/100MWh in Fife, Scotland. TagEnergy confirmed it had attained financial close, while retaining 100% equity in the project dubbed Roaring Hill, after

Solar has become increasingly economic in recent years, with surging power prices also driving domestic and industrial adoption, and therefore jobs market. Image: Greens MPs (Flickr). Over the last three years there’s been a 315% increase in the demand for solar installers, according to new data from hiring platform Indeed. The profession came out top

Affinity Water aims to increase its combined solar energy capacity to 23.5MW per year. Image: Affinity Water. Affinity Water has announced that it plans to construct up to 28 more solar arrays sites in Phase Two of its solar energy efficiency programme. This follows the conclusion of the water company’s first phase in September, which

Published: 24 Jan 2023, 12:49 The new 800MW solar farm will be co-located with battery storage and has already secured a grid connection from the National Grid, said a spokesperson from Springwell Solar Farm. Image: Springwell Solar Farm. Consultations have begun for Springwell Solar Farm, a joint venture by EDF Renewables UK and the solar

Published: 23 Jan 2023, 14:41 A Scottish Water treatment works at Skellyton, Larkhall, is partially self-generating its energy needs via an array of 560 solar PV panels. With an annual generation capacity of around 150MW, the solar array that is now online can produce 20% of the electricity required to maintain the water treatment site,

Research from Solar Energy UK shows less than 0.5% of UK farmland would be required to deliver the government’s 70GW of solar by 2035 target. Image: MikPeach (Wikimedia). Wiltshire Climate Alliance (WCA) has released a new Energy policy paper on solar urging politicians and communities to utilise Wiltshire’s southerly location – benefitting from one of