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

Published: 8 Dec 2021, 13:32 Bluefield’s operational portfolio now consists of 106 PV plants with a total capacity of 613MWp. Image: Bluefield. British solar investment fund Bluefield Partners has completed its first transaction in France, closing Project Germain with French solar developer IDSUD Energies SAS. The company has over £1.03 billion (€1.2 billion) of renewable

Published: 7 Dec 2021, 10:39 Work on the BESS, which is to be connected to the transmission network at the Bustlehome substation, has begun. Image: Pivot Power EDF-owned Pivot Power has started work on a 50MW/100MWh battery storage facility as part of its second Energy Superhub project. The Superhub network is designed to deliver up

Published: 7 Dec 2021, 11:57 This is the second battery energy storage system TagEnergy has acquired from RES. Image: RES TagEnergy has acquired a 100% stake in the 99.9MW Lakeside battery energy storage system (BESS), marking its fifth investment in the UK this year. The company purchased the BESS from RES for close to £65 million,