Published: 14 Apr 2021, 11:01 Gresham House has secured a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for a 4.3MW solar farm through renewable energy procurement platform Zeigo. Zeigo said that it was able to complete the PPA for the Leicestershire site swiftly and at a good price. Wayne Cranstone, investment director at Gresham House, said they were “delighted” […]

Published: 13 Apr 2021, 10:13 Members of the UK solar industry have voiced support for plans to develop a supply-chain transparency protocol to tackle concerns over forced labour. In a statement, the collection of organisations – which includes the likes of Bluefield Partners, Lightsource BP and NextEnergy Capital – stated they “condemn and oppose any

Published: 13 Apr 2021, 12:15 Image: Open Climate Fix. Green tech software nonprofit Open Climate Fix has been awarded £500,000 for its solar power forecast technology from Google.org. The grant will allow the company to adapt and apply elements of its “transformer” models, which were previously used in predicting the shape of proteins and formed

Published: 12 Apr 2021, 11:19 Image: Wain Homes. HBS New Energies has been awarded a contract by Wain Homes to install solar PV amounting to a total of just under 300kWp on 123 new low-carbon dwellings. The Saxon Gate housing development consists of a total of 198 new homes in the town of Ivybridge, Devon,

The solar farm will be built on land adjacent to ScottishPower’s Whitelee wind farm. Image: ScottishPower. ScottishPower has submitted a planning application for up to 40MW of solar, along with up to 50MW of battery storage and a 20MW electrolyser as part of its Green Hydrogen for Scotland project. The electrolyser will be the largest

Published: 12 Apr 2021, 10:28 Energy storage firm Moixa was one of over 30 organisations to sign the letter, with VAT on energy storage current set at 20%. Image: Moixa. A letter penned by energy supplier Bulb and signed by over 30 industry organisations is calling on the government to reduce VAT rates for green

Image: Centrica. The British Army has hailed the installation of a 2.3MW photovoltaic solar farm at its Defence School of Transport (DST), Leconfield. Delivered by Centrica Business Solutions, it is the first of four pilot sites being installed as part of Project PROMETHEUS, which collectively are designed to deliver £1 million in efficiency savings. The

Published: 7 Apr 2021, 15:56 UrbanVolt will finance the installation of solar panels for businesses and sell the electricity back to them at a fixed rate for 25 years. Image: Alfred Twu/Wikimedia Commons. Dublin-based energy efficiency company UrbanVolt has launched a new service to supply solar electricity to large and small businesses through rooftop solar

Published: 7 Apr 2021, 12:51 Image: Lightsource bp. Solar development giant Lightsource bp has unveiled proposals for a 350MW site in North Anglesey, Wales. The company is proposing to fund, develop and build the Môn solar farm, which will be split across three parcels of land in the north east of the island, including on

Published: 7 Apr 2021, 13:33 The Kelwin-2 battery shares a grid connection with a wind farm. Image: Statkraft. Norwegian utility Statkraft has completed the construction of its second large-scale battery storage project in the Republic of Ireland. The 26MW Kelwin-2 installation is located in Tarbert, County Kerry, and will be used to respond instantly to