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

Published: 13 Dec 2021, 15:21 This is the first time solar is able to participate in the CfD auction since it was first held in 2015. Image: Andreas Gücklhorn (unsplash). The fourth Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction has now opened, with solar able to take part for the first time since 2015. Solar projects will

Published: 13 Dec 2021, 12:41 The solar installation on the roof of St. Mary’s Catholic School. Image: Engenera Engenera has completed the installation of 610 solar PV panels on the roof of St. Mary’s Catholic School in Newcastle. It is the first of 12 schools in Newcastle to have solar installed as part of the new scheme,

Solar PV such as this ground-mount array at Scottish Water’s Inverness site is still being deployed, although Scotland contributes just 2.5% of the UK’s solar energy. Image: Scottish Water. Solar Energy Scotland’s calls for the Scottish Parliament to make key policy changes to support solar have been backed by a new motion put forward by

Published: 9 Dec 2021, 10:08 Katherine Vinnicombe joins Eelpower from SSE, where she led solar and storage project development. Image: Eelpower Katherine Vinnicombe has joined UK energy storage company Eelpower as the new head of business development. Vinnicombe is to drive the strategic development of Eelpower’s platform of battery storage assets, with these being brought