Image: Downing. Downing LLP has announced its first utility-scale battery storage site in the UK, with a 50MW/53MWh project in Nursling, Southampton. The investment manager has selected its co-funding partner as well as having entered into agreements for the supply of the storage solution, the optimisation of the asset and the route to market and trading arrangements. […]

Image: NESF. NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) has continued to report what it describes as “strong operational resilience” throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in its update for the quarter ending 31 December 2020. NESF recorded a boost in electricity generation from its assets, at 8.1% above budget year-to-date. This generated c.£5.1 million in additional revenue, with irradiation

Solar PV is included within the Local Authority allocation of the scheme. Image: Ell Brown. The Green Homes Grant is to reportedly be shuttered in March, less than a year after it first began operation. The £2 billion scheme is designed to provide vouchers for green home technologies such as solar thermal, heat pumps and –

Solar thermal alongside PV, heat pumps and other green measures are eligible under the scheme. Image: Julian (Flickr). Further calls for improvements to the Green Homes Grant are being voiced, with NGOs and thinktanks issuing a letter to the Prime Minister and Chancellor on the subject. Describing the Green Homes Grant as being “beset with

Tesco signed a 10-year solar PPA last November. Image: Tesco. Solar operators could be handling a more complex power purchase agreement (PPA) portfolio with multiple small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as offtakers, according to industry leaders. Speaking during the Solar Finance & Investment Europe conference yesterday (18 February), Jing Liu, assistant general manager of structured

Solar PV is included with the Local Authority Delivery segment of the Green Homes Grant. Image: Maria Godfrida (Pixabay). Four industry associations have joined forces to urge the government to adopt a new plan to improve the beleaguered Green Homes Grant after finding 35% of installers are at risk of shutting up shop due to the

Published: 18 Feb 2021, 12:11 The G1 Flashings are darker in colour. Image: Viridian Solar. Cambridge-based Viridian Solar has added two new modules to its Clearline fusion range of roof integrated solar.   The 335Wp and 340Wp modules mark a shift away from a 156mm cell size for the company. It has opted for mono-crystalline PERC

Published: 18 Feb 2021, 10:27 HBS New Energies has partnered with JA Solar and GSE Integration to offer a new roof-integrated PV system to help housing developers deliver zero carbon ready homes. Dubbed the Complete In-roof Solar solution, it can be installed with JA Solar half-cell modules from 320W up to 370W in a range

Published: 17 Feb 2021, 17:49 Image: Midsummer. Wholesaler Midsummer is launching a Renewable Heating Division, expanding its range of clean technology. As part of the move, new partnerships have been signed with heat pump manufacturers Samsung Climate Solutions, Mitsubishi Ecodan and innovative hot water tank supplier Mixergy. Midsummer has appointed Jez Climas to lead the new

Published: 17 Feb 2021, 11:56 Image: PACE. Pathfinder Clean Energy (PACE) has been granted planning permission for its Three Bridges solar farm. The 21MW project will sit seven miles north-east of Dereham in Norfolk and have the ability to be co-located with energy storage. It may be constructed with either tracker technology or more traditional fixed