Gore Street’s 10MW Lower Road battery energy storage site in Essex. Image: Gore Street. Gore Street Energy Storage Fund saw its NAV increase 192% in the year ending March 2021, as its portfolio continued to expand to 440MW. This is a substantial jump from 189MW in the previous year, and included a growing Irish portfolio. […]

Image: Eric Hossinger. The Treasury has outlined reluctance to change the VAT level on green products, following calls from industry for reductions to accelerate the rollout of technologies like solar panels and heat pumps. In a letter sent to the MCS Foundation, Treasury minister Jesse Norman argues that reducing VAT for green products would “impose

E.ON’s Solar Reward scheme was to “bridge the gap” between the feed-in tariff and the Smart Export Guarantee, which came into effect in January 2020. Image: E.ON A Guarantee Scheme, financial support and options for surplus energy would all boost domestic solar uptake. This is according to the findings of a study conducted by Basis Social

Published: 13 Jul 2021, 12:07 EDF is currently developing a number of UK solar sites including Sutton Bridge, Tye Land and Bloy’s Grove, all of which are 49.9MW. Image: EDF EDF Renewables UK is moving forward with its proposed development of a 49.9MW solar farm, with a public consultation now open. The East Stour Solar

Published: 13 Jul 2021, 12:08 Wherever permissible, solar panels will now be installed on all new Lidl stores in Britain. Image: Lidl. Supermarket chain Lidl GB has announced that it will be installing solar panels on all new stores as part of a new commitment to be carbon neutral by 2022. This brings it in

Published: 13 Jul 2021, 11:23 Gresham House’s 50MW Wickham Market battery storage site in Suffolk. Image: GRID. Gresham House Energy Storage Fund (GRID) has raised £100 million to construct an additional 240MW of storage projects. It raised the funds through the issue of 89,285,714 ordinary shares of 1 pence, with the issue price per new

Published: 12 Jul 2021, 17:16 National Grid ESO’s most ambitious scenario sees solar capacity grow to almost 90GW by the middle of the century. Image: Andreas Gücklhorn (unsplash). Continued price reductions are expected to increase the uptake of solar panels through the late 2020s, National Grid ESO has found. In its Future Energy Scenarios (FES)

Globally renewable technologies produced 2,435TWh in 2020. Image: Getty. Thinktank Ember has ranked the UK as sixth in the world for wind and solar generation, with the technologies contributing 29% of its electricity mix in 2020. Its new report, Global Electricity Review, shows that the renewable technologies produced 2,435TWh in 2020, or almost a tenth

There is evidence of forced labour in Xinjiang detention camps, which could be part of the UK solar sectors supply chain. Image: Openclipart.org. The UK’s Foreign Affairs Committee has called for a ban on the import of solar panels from Xinjiang Province, China, to tackle forced labour in the supply chain. In a new report, Never

Left to right: Heidi Stedeford and Rupert Meadows from Power for People and MPs Peter Aldous, Wera Hobhouse and Ben Lake stand before Parliament. Image Power for People. A cross-party group of MPs have called on the government to enact a ‘Right to Local Supply’ as they debated new rules to enable clean community energy.