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Published: 22 Dec 2021, 11:50 Maldon, Essex, near which the 40MW BESS is to be located. Image: John Fielding (Flickr) Macquarie’s Green Investment Group has reached financial close on its first UK battery energy storage system (BESS). The 40MW / 40MWh BESS is located in Maldon, Essex, and forms part of a 187MWh portfolio of […]

Greencoat has over 3GW of generation across the UK, Europe and the US. Image: Greencoat. Global investment manager Schroders is to acquire a 75% shareholding in renewable energy infrastructure manager Greencoat, for an initial consideration of £358 million. The deal includes a potential earn out, which will be payable three years after completion and is

Published: 21 Dec 2021, 10:01 The village of Cuxton, in Kent, near where one of the battery systems is to be located. Image: CamRutter Two UK battery energy storage systems (BESS) under development by Japanese engineering firm Nippon Koei’s Netherlands-based subsidiary have reached financial close. The two 49.5MW BESS are located in Tollgate and Cuxton,

Published: 21 Dec 2021, 10:09 BSR now has a portfolio of over 700MW of solar PV. Image: BSR. UK solar developer British Solar Renewables (BSR) has received planning consent for its 49.9MW Fambridge Solar Park. Following a consultation period during the 2020 lockdown, BSR submitted the planning application for the site – which includes a

Published: 20 Dec 2021, 11:21 RSPB has previously had solar installed at seven of its nature reserves. Image: RSPB The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is to advise UK solar developer Lightrock Power on how to achieve a 20% biodiversity net gain on its solar farms. Lightrock has already committed to the

Invinity’s flow battery at the Energy Superhub Oxford site. Image: Invinity A 5MWh flow battery system installed as part of the Energy Superhub Oxford has been energised by Invinity Energy Systems alongside EDF-owned Pivot Power. The flow battery system is the largest in the UK, according to Invinity, and is to be combined with a 50MWh Wärtsilä

Published: 16 Dec 2021, 11:32 PACE has had three utility-scale solar farms approved in the UK in 2021, giving it a capacity of 70MWp. Image: PACE. Solar and battery storage developer Pathfinder Clean Energy (PACE) has secured funding from Hitachi Capital Business Finance. The financing arrangement will allow PACE to continue developing its pipeline of

Published: 16 Dec 2021, 10:28 An NTR-owned solar and storage site in Co. Wexford. Image: NTR NTR battery storage projects totaling 22MW have secured ten-year contracts for the supply of grid capacity to the Irish grid system. This was won in the capacity auction announced by grid operators Eirgrid and SONI this month. The two

Published: 15 Dec 2021, 09:00 Sembcorp said the 360MW battery energy storage system is to be the largest in Europe. Image: Sembcorp Sembcorp Energy UK is planning on building what it claims will be Europe’s largest battery energy storage system (BESS) as its site at Wilton International on Teesside. Land and connections are already in place

Solar PV could help raise bumble bee populations. Image: Alvaroreguly (Flickr). Changes to how solar PV park land in the UK is managed could see sites support four times as many bumble bees, new research has found. Specifically, this can be achieved by managing land as meadows rather than turf grass, with researchers at Lancaster University coming