Published: 4 Oct 2021, 10:57 A total of 2,568,810kWh of low carbon electricity was exported via the SEG in the first year. Image: Maria Godfrida (Pixabay). Solar PV made up around 99.8% of all installations registered with the Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) in its first fifteen months of operations. This is according to Ofgem’s first […]

Published: 1 Oct 2021, 14:32 The solutions are being lauded as the quickest and easiest-to-install solutions on the market. Image: FIMER. FIMER is launching high-power inverter and high-capacity storage platforms for the residential market with an aim of helping installers make the most of increasing demand. The FIMER PowerUNO, PowerTRIO and PowerX platforms are to be

Published: 1 Oct 2021, 14:58 This will be ESB and Fluence’s fifth project together, giving them a total portfolio of 308MWh. Image: ESB/Fluence. State owned electricity company ESB and energy storage technology company Fluence have announced two new battery projects in Dublin. The 75MW/150MWh battery in Poolbeg is to be the EU’s largest battery energy storage

Published: 1 Oct 2021, 10:22 The GE Renewable Energy battery energy storage systems are to be deployed across several sites Conrad Energy is developing in the UK. Image: GE Renewable Energy A major framework agreement has been signed between GE Renewable Energy and Conrad Energy for the design, manufacture and supply of GE’s battery energy storage

Juliet Davenport has been working in the energy sector for over 20 years, having set up renewable energy supplier Good Energy in 2000. Image: Gravitricity. Ex-Good Energy CEO Juliet Davenport has joined energy storage business Gravitricity as an advisor to the board as it moves into its next phase of growth. The start-up has designed

Published: 30 Sep 2021, 16:13 EDF Renewables CEO Matthieu Hue with minister Eamon Ryan at EDF’s new office in Ringsend, Dublin. Image: EDF Renewables. EDF Renewables is targeting a 1GW development pipeline of onshore renewables in Ireland. The company has expanded the number of projects it has under development rapidly over the past few months,

Published: 30 Sep 2021, 13:03 Leconfield is the first of four pilot installations at British Army sites as part of Project Prometheus. Image: Centrica. The British Army’s first Project Prometheus solar farm has been officially opened by the minister for defence procurement, Jeremy Quin. The 2.3MW site based at The Defence School of Transport (DST),

Published: 30 Sep 2021, 10:27 Construction of a 64GWh solar PV asset in South Gloucestershire being developed by Cero Generation and Enso Energy is to begin, having achieved financial close. Debt financing was provided by Rabobank, which was arranged by Macquarie Capital. Construction will be carried out by Gransolar Group and the operational phase will

The two solar sites are to use the existing grid connections for Cottam Power Station (pictured) and West Burton A. Image: EDF Two coal power stations in the east midlands – Cottam and West Burton A – are now to be home to solar PV with a combined capacity of over 1GW. Developed by Island

Published: 29 Sep 2021, 12:43 The BESS forms part of a 1.1GW portfolio. Image: Pacific Green Technologies. Pacific Green Energy Storage is to acquire a 249MW battery energy storage development in Kent. It has confirmed its intent to acquire the battery energy storage system (BESS) from Sheaf Energy, as part of its exclusivity agreement with