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BWCE installation at Bath and North East Somerset’s council offices. Image: Bath and West Community Energy. Community energy is being ignored and abandoned by government, despite claims of world-leading net zero policy, according to Community Energy England. The organisation has called on the government to support community energy to allow it to reach its full […]

Published: 10 Jan 2022, 10:07 The Skelton Grange site, where 100MW of battery storage is to be constructed. Image: Catalyst Capital European investor Catalyst Capital has acquired a site in Yorkshire for the development of a 100MW battery facility as part of its £300 million battery storage strategy. The leasehold interest in the brownfield site

Cover image – The UK’s solar pipeline now consists of 37GWpdc of utility-scale projects at different stages of planning. Image: Lightsource bp. UK solar activity during 2021 can be seen as transformational on many levels: the emergence of a sustainable subsidy-free rooftop segment; overall deployment levels that saw almost equal contribution from ground-mount and rooftop

Gresham House’s Glassenbury battery storage asset. Image: Gresham House Energy Storage Fund. Gresham House Energy Storage Fund is targeting a market share of c.25% to 30% in the UK and Ireland in 2022 following an increase in earnings over 2021. Indeed, in a trading update for the full year to 31 December, the fund outlined

Published: 7 Jan 2022, 11:54 The co-investment marks NESF’s first step into the Spanish market, building on its projects in the UK and Italy. Image: NESF. NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) has taken its first step into the Spanish market with a co-investment transaction for a 25% stake in a 50MW project under construction in Cádiz. 

Published: 6 Jan 2022, 11:27 The first project is set to be a 45MW co-located solar and battery storage scheme at Burcot Farm in South Oxfordshire (pictured). Image: PPS. Public Power Solutions (PPS), Hive Energy and Ethical Power have entered into a co-development agreement, targeting 250MW of solar and storage over the next three years.

Published: 5 Jan 2022, 14:06 Funding up to £1,000 is available to businesses for employee training in solar, storage and low carbon technologies. Image: Maria Godfrida (Pixabay). The Solar Skills London project, which provides funding for training in solar PV, energy storage and low carbon technologies, has extended the deadline for applications. Launched by Solar Energy

Published: 24 Dec 2021, 10:00 Installations of solar PV under the Green Homes Grant have increased throughout the year. Image: Maria Godfrida (Pixabay). To date, there have been 1,623 installations of solar PV through the Local Authority Delivery of the Green Homes Grant, a significant rise on previously reported figures. In total, the scheme has

Published: 23 Dec 2021, 11:57 Nofar Energy’s CEO, Nadav Tene, who said the new JV is to “generate significant growth”. Image: Nofar Energy Israel’s Nofar Energy is to pursue the development of UK battery energy storage systems (BESS) in a new joint venture (JV) with investment group Interland. The first project in this JV is to

Published: 22 Dec 2021, 14:48 By: Solar installations have been beset this year by supply chain volatility. Image: Lightsource bp. The last year is unlikely to be one the solar and energy storage industries will forget in a hurry but, just in case anything from the last 12 months has slipped your mind, the Solar