Image: Maria Godfrida (Pixabay). Just four solar PV systems have been installed under the Local Authority Delivery of the Green Homes Grant, the only segment both still running and that PV is eligible for. New statistics released today by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy reveal that of the 1,180 installations of green […]

Published: 27 May 2021, 10:22 Engenera CEO Bryan Glendinning and TMS Grid managing director Peter Eagle. Image: Engenera. EPC Engenera Renewables Group is looking to tender for larger projects as it enters into a strategic partnership with power and grid firm TMS Grid. The two are now to offer an agnostic energy service nationwide, having previously

Image: Anesco. Anesco has won three new operations and maintenance (O&M) contracts, expanding its operations into Northern Ireland. It is building on its existing relationship with the Foresight Group with the first contract, which will see it provide O&M services to a 15MW ground mount solar asset in Country Armagh. In January 2020, Anesco signed

Published: 26 May 2021, 15:00 Plymouth Energy’s solar farm. Image: CORE. Across England and Wales, six community solar farms have generated £60,000 of surplus profit that will be used to support their local communities. The farms have been supported by Community Owned Renewable Energy (CORE) Partners – a social investment partnership between Big Society Capital

Published: 25 May 2021, 12:57 Surrey County Council is to offer homeowners the opportunity to buy solar PV through a group-buying scheme as it becomes the latest to join Solar Together. Having been running for three years, the Solar Together programme has delivered almost 4,000 installations. Alongside offering the chance to purchase solar PV, it

Published: 25 May 2021, 09:43 Image: Nissan. Nissan is set to expand the solar farm at its North East plant by a further 20MW, announcing Engenera Renewables Group as its partner in the project. The motor manufacturer is working to more than double the amount of renewable energy produced at the Sunderland site, which currently

Published: 24 May 2021, 13:04 Image: EDF. Consultation has gotten underway for a 50MW solar farm EDF Renewables is looking to develop between the villages of Flore and Upper Heyford, along the M1 Corridor. The 49.9MW Glassthorpe farm would utilise existing hedgerows at the site as well as creating new ones to improve biodiversity. A

Published: 21 May 2021, 10:33 Image: DORE. Strong power prices in Europe helped offset falling UK power prices to allow Downing Renewables & Infrastructure Trust plc’s (DORE) Net Asset Value (NAV) to grow 1.3% in the first quarter of 2021. The company’s NAV rose to £121.6 million, or 99.2 pence per share, up from £119.9

Image: Andreas Gücklhorn (unsplash). Solar Energy UK has lent its weight to calls for renewable deployment targets as part of “urgent action” needed to decarbonise Britain’s grid. It has called for a specific government target of 40GW of solar deployment by 2030, a significant jump from the 14GWp-dc currently deployed. The call echoes that from the

Image: Engenera. Engenera Renewables Group, one of the UK’s leading renewable energy companies, has restructured its management team and realigned its offering to ensure it is well positioned to respond to new, ambitious government targets on reducing carbon emissions. In April, the UK government brought forward its target of reducing carbon emissions by 78% (compared