The latest CfD round, which opened in December, is the first to include solar PV since the first auction. Image: Getty. With high wholesale prices alongside lowered levy rates, electricity suppliers are to receive reconciliation payments for their Contracts for Difference (CfD) contributions for the first time. While generators receive top-up payments to the strike price […]

Bellway has been installing Viridian’s roof-integrated solar panels on homes since 2019. Image: Viridian Solar. Viridian Solar has extended its partnership with housebuilder Bellway, which will see its Clearline fusion roof-integrated solar systems installed on many new homes. The new National Supply Agreement builds on the companies’ initial partnership signed in 2019, extending it out

Published: 12 Jan 2022, 11:00 If approved, Gate Burton will be one of an emerging class of NSIP solar projects. Image: Getty. Low Carbon has opened a consultation into its 500MW Gate Burton solar and energy storage park in Lincolnshire. The energy park will sit on one site, located in the West Lindsay District near

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