Published: 23 Jul 2021, 14:14 Bluefield is looking to both expand and diversify its portfolio using the funds raising in this new placing. Image: Bluefield. Bluefield Solar Income Fund has raised £105.1 million through an oversubscribed share placing, to target further diversification and expansion of its assets. The company issued 89,067,980 new ordinary shares at […]

Published: 22 Jul 2021, 15:07 The new course is to first be held at GTEC’s Yorkshire centre and utilise AceOn’s equipment. Image: AceOn. An accredited course for installers on how to specify and fit battery storage is now on offer as part of a partnership between AceOn and GTEC. The two signed a deal earlier this year

Published: 22 Jul 2021, 11:49 The PPA signed with the City of London Corporation for the South Farm site was hailed as a UK first by the companies. Voltalia has begun construction of its 49.9MW South Farm solar plant near Spetisbury, Dorset. In November 2020, the international renewable energy company signed a £40 million power

Published: 22 Jul 2021, 10:37 The Mayor of London has set a target of 1GW of solar by 2030. Image: Daniel Chapman/Flickr. Solar Energy UK has teamed up with the Mayor of London to launch a new grant scheme to support solar businesses. It forms part of the Solar Skills: London project, which provides training

Published: 22 Jul 2021, 09:13 A solar PV plant owned by EDP Renewables in Romania. Image: EDPR EDP Renewables (EDPR) has reached agreements to acquire a 544MW UK wind and solar portfolio, 118MW of which is solar currently under development. The remainder of the portfolio consists of a 5MW operating wind farm, 192MW of wind

Published: 21 Jul 2021, 17:16 The Skelmersdale site will use Tesla’s lithium-ion battery technology, Megapack. Image: Tesla, Inc. Specialist international investment manager Amber Infrastructure Group has reached commercial close on the development of a 50MW/100MWh utility-scale battery energy storage project in west Lancashire. The project will use Megapack, Tesla’s large-scale lithium-ion battery technology, for the

Published: 21 Jul 2021, 15:19 The Owl’s Hatch solar farm in Kent. Image: Cubico Anesco has been awarded 12 contracts by Cubico Sustainable Investments and GLIL Infrastructure to provide operations and maintenance (O&M) for a jointly owned portfolio. Totalling 148MW of UK-wide solar, the portfolio is the single largest Anesco has secured for O&M services

Published: 21 Jul 2021, 15:40 Left to right: Pinergy’s Peter Bastable and Enda Gunnell, with Solar Electric’s Tom Foley and Robert Goss. Image: Solar Electric. Irish designer and installer of solar renewables and energy storage systems Solar Electric has been acquired by smart energy solutions business Pinergy. Solar Electric was set up in 2012, and

Published: 20 Jul 2021, 12:26 Wexford is the highest yield area for solar in Ireland according to Highview, which is set to build the 141MWp Rosspile solar PV plant in the county. Image: Sean MacEntee/Flickr. Highfield Solar has secured one of the first large-scale solar construction financing deals in Ireland for the development of two

SolarEdge’s Synergy technology splits the functionality of solar inverters into three independent units which are controlled by a single management interface. Image: SolarEdge SolarEdge is launching its 100kW three phase inverter with synergy technology, designed to improve the profitability of larger PV installations, in the UK. The SE100K inverter offers up to 150% DC oversizing to maximise