Published: 20 Apr 2021, 12:43 The Hallen Battery will provide frequency, balancing and other ancillary services to the national grid. Image: Getty. Voltalia has announced the beginning of construction of its 32MW/32MWh Hallen battery energy storage system. The lithium-ion battery asset is to be located near the city of Bristol in the Avonmouth area and […]

Published: 20 Apr 2021, 10:36 Image: Gresham House. Virgin Money has agreed a new financing partnership with Gresham House Solar Distribution, providing a £18 million revolving credit facility to facilitate the growth of solar assets. The deal is the bank’s largest transaction in the renewables sector to date, and a step towards its goal to

Published: 16 Apr 2021, 16:06 Trevor Trelevan, who has been appointed as technical support and sales engineer. Image: SOLARWATT German PV manufacturer SOLARWATT is gearing up for UK growth with the appointment Trevor Treleven as technical support and sales engineer. Treleven is to work with UK sales manager Neal Goddard to provide expert technical support

Published: 16 Apr 2021, 11:19 Image: BeBa Energy Commercial solar PV firm BeBa Energy is celebrating the finished installation of a new rooftop solar array for KLM UK Engineering and Norwich Airport. The 249.9kW array has been installed on the new Hangar 9 project, with the building being specifically designed and built to include solar PV.

Published: 15 Apr 2021, 10:37 Image: RWE. RWE Renewables’ first European battery – an 8.5MWh project – has gone live in Dublin, Ireland. The battery is set to provide balancing services to the Irish grid to help it integrate increased renewable energy, with a target of 70% of electricity demand to be met by renewables by 2030. Located

Image: Anesco. Anesco has submitted a planning application for a 19.657MW Solar Farm in Amber Valley, Derbyshire. The site would have 36,720 ground-mount solar panels arranged along a racking system with a maximum height of 2.5m, at a fixed tilt of 15 degrees. The angle is specific to the site and based upon the topography

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,