Published: 7 Jan 2021, 17:34 Steve Williams, the company’s founder and managing director, will be based at the office in Salisbury when he returns from Dubai, where he is carrying out consultancy work. Image: Clean Solar Solar O&M provider Clean Solar Solutions has opened its second UK office in Salisbury, Wiltshire. Steve Williams, Clean Solar’s […]

Published: 4 Jan 2021, 15:47 Image: SASC. Social and Sustainable Capital (SASC) is creating a dedicated renewables investment committee in a bid to expand its work in community renewables. SSE Renewables’ head of renewable sales and trading, Mark Billsborough, is to join the committee, as well as Louisa Cilenti, partner at Lux Nova Partners. The

Swanbarton director Anthony Price. Image: Charles Price. Energy storage was recognised in the 2021 New Year’s Honours list, with Swanbarton’s director Anthony Price awarded an OBE. He was highlighted for his services to the energy storage industry, along with a number of other energy professionals also set to receive honours. Price has worked as director

The Foresight Group has today announced it is considering proceeding with an initial public offering (IPO) in a move that executive chairman and co-founder Bernard Fairman described as the “next logical step” for the investor. If the IPO goes ahead, Foresight will apply for admission of its shares to the premium listing segment of the

Published: 5 Jan 2021, 12:02 Image: AceOn. Energy storage firm AceOn has joined a call to reverse changes to VAT for the technology that came into effect in 2019. Following the changes, the VAT rate on home energy storage jumped from 5% to 20%, a move that Richard Partington, managing director of AceOn, said has “not

Published: 5 Jan 2021, 15:05 Image: Downing Renewables & Infrastructure Trust. Downing LLP has signed a new power purchase agreement (PPA) for two of its solar farms in Devon using Zeigo’s online renewables procurement platform. This is the first PPA concluded on Zeigo’s platform and is between Downing and an undisclosed UK energy supplier. Lucy

Image: ENGIE. Second-life battery storage system company Connected Energy is celebrating a successful investment round with ENGIE New Ventures increasing its strategic investment. The company uses end-of-life electric vehicle batteries to create energy storage systems, connecting multiple to make a scalable storage solution with a capacity ranging from less than 100kwh up to 15MWh or

Image: Sunamp. British utility E.On has acquired a 49% share of residential and commercial solar energy company Eco2Solar. While E.ON is not disclosing the cost of the acquisition due to its commercially sensitive nature, “We can say we have made a fair investment given the scale and potential of Eco2Solar and this market as a

Image: ESB/Fluence. State owned electricity supply company ESB has announced its first major battery projects in Ireland, at sites in Inchicore, Co Dublin and Aghada, Co Cork. Both battery energy storage systems will be installed at existing ESB sites, with the company working with technology provider Fluence on the 60MWh system in Dublin and 38MWh