Solar

Image: gov.uk. The Coal Authority has flagged the success of its solar power installations in helping to decarbonise its operations around the UK, as it looks to extend the rollout. It’s Bates mine water treatment scheme near Blyth, Northumberland, for example, started operating on 1 March 2019. It is the non-departmental public body within the […]

Published: 1 Jul 2021, 10:38 Gresham House’s Glassenbury battery storage asset. Image: Gresham House Energy Storage Fund. Gresham House Energy Storage Fund (GRID) is on track to own more than 1.2GW of operational battery energy storage systems after securing a deal to acquire 425MW of projects from Gresham House Devco and expanding its exclusive pipeline

Published: 1 Jul 2021, 12:00 Greek industrial conglomerate Mytilineos has acquired a 14MW solar portfolio in the Republic Ireland from Elgin Energy. Purchased through Mytilineos’ Renewables and Storage Development (RSD) Business, the portfolio will enjoy long-term contracts for difference (CfD) awarded under Ireland’s first Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS) auction. This took place last August, with solar

Image: Shutterstock. Energy technology company Lightsource Labs has teamed up with supplier Pure Planet to develop a domestic solar and storage solution. Pure Planet will use Lightsource Labs’ home energy management technology Tribe and its virtual power plant (VPP) platform to optimise solar and storage installations, reduce consumer bills and provide grid flexibility services. By managing devices

Approved connections for solar sites reached 34 between January and May, doubling the number recorded in 2020. Image: UKPN A total of 34 new solar generation sites and nine battery storage sites have secured connection contracts with UK Power Networks (UKPN) between January and May in Essex, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire. For both technologies, this is

The solar is expected to supply one third of the Duke of Gloucester Barracks’ electricity needs. Image: 3ti. Building work on a new solar farm at the Duke of Gloucester Barracks, South Cerney, has been started by 3ti. Part of Project Prometheus, the site – which is due to be completed by September – is one

Image: Andreas Gucklhorn (Unsplash). Housing minister Christopher Pincher MP has announced plans to reform the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP) regime. Set up in 2008, it has been used to gain consent for large-scale energy projects such as 350MW Cleve Hill Solar Park, the first NSIP-approved solar project. Overall, 100 energy, transport, water, wastewater and

Social Energy expanded into Australia in a partnership with Duracell last year. Image: Social Energy Social Energy has launched a new solar export tariff offering 20p/kWh for the first 1,000kWh exported per year. Following this, the tariff drops to an uncapped 6p/kWh, just above the 5.6p/kWh that saw Social Energy rise to the top of

Published: 25 Jun 2021, 12:04 The dam at the Cruachan pumped hydro storage power station currently. Image: Drax. Drax has announced plans for a new underground pumped hydro storage power station, and will seek planning permission to expand its Cruachan site in Scotland to 1.04GW. The 600MW power station will be built inside Argyll’s highest

The UK government has confirmed it is investigating allegations of forced labour in the global solar supply chain, but refused to state whether or not it would be shortly following the US in enacting import sanctions on specific upstream manufacturers in Xinjiang, China. The US Department of Commerce and US Customs and Border Protection revealed