Highest home solar instals for seven years, says MCS watchdog
Domestic installations of on-roof solar electricity systems boomed last year to their highest peak since 2015, the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) has reported.
Just over...
Fashion retailer H&M finds good (non-FiT) fit with Lightsource bp on two Midlands farms
Fashion shoppers in Swedish brand H&M’s UK stores will now be browsing its wares in light provided by clean power made on British solar...
Good Energy hots up SET rivalry; plans roll-out to 80,000
Long-standing green energy pioneer Good Energy, Britain's biggest voluntary Feed-in Tariff (FiT) administrator with over 80,000 generation customers, has launched a new smart export...
VPP champ Octopus Maxes out, permits firms to spread single-site clean generation UK-wide
Green-exclusive generator Octopus Energy, Britain’s third biggest supplier, is enabling multi-site companies who self-generate their renewable power to spread it between sites, even nationwide.
The...
Sunny jobs up top: PV installer is “best job for 2023”, say recruiters
Being a solar installer is ranked as the best job to have in the UK this year, judged among twenty alternatives, against factors including...
How Green will be my Valley? Wales opts to go 100% renewable as early...
Wales’ devolved government this afternoon declared its intention to meet 100% of the nation’s electricity needs from renewable sources as early as 2035.
Describing the...
Octopus to begin home solar PV installations
Multilegged electricity kraken Octopus Energy solar-shocked Britain’s PV installers today, announcing it is now offering its own installation of on-roof systems and batteries for...
Solar roofs should be “mainstay” of tougher building code, MPs are urged
Solar electricity systems pre-installed on new homes must be a mainstay of beefed-up building regulations, MPs on Parliament’s environmental audit committee were told yesterday.
Ian...
Solar heat-with-power innovator Naked Energy buffs up, targets Portugal and Greece
“Twin solar” technologists Naked Energy are targeting new EU territories with two distribution deals announced today.
In September the Crawley-based firm, founded in 2009 by...
2022’s grid is UK’s second greenest ever, as wind output beats 20GW
Renewable sources set new records for UK electricity generation last year, beaten only by 2020’s year of peak lockdown.
Wind, hydro and solar together accounted...
13GW of RE tenders open in Germany, as Ireland names offshore winners
Regulators of Europe’s biggest energy market have announced their intention to pursue 12.8GW more onshore wind capacity in 2023, and over 650 MW of...
Bluefield & Octopus tie up PV deals – though not with each other……
Solar photovoltaics’ progress to ousting planet-cooking hydrocarbon from electricity generation advanced still further this week, exemplified today by Bluefield Solar Income Fund.
The investment vehicle...
Nineteen years of ‘free power’ from solar PV, says ECIU, as storage costs drive...
Payback periods as low as six years on new rooftop solar means up to 19 years of free power now for property owners who...
Sunak heartens England’s pro-wind heartlands, Coffey backs 3b land
Frictions within prime minister Rishi Sunak’s increasingly internal fragile coalition of in-office Conservatives have brought new comfort this week to developers of land-based green...
Minister signs off PV developer’s Devon appeal, as Next Gen raises c£ half billion...
A solar developer has had a project in Devon approved by a minister on appeal, after a countryside charity was found to have mis-stated...
Thanks, Vladimir: Solar PV to replace coal as planet’s top power source by 2027,...
Renewables will be the world’s main source of electricity as early as 2027, the United Nations’ energy authority states bluntly today.
In its global survey...
Supermarkets team up with power co-ops to urge more green generation
High Street food giants including Tesco, M&S and Morrisons have joined forces with Community Energy England, calling for faster progress by PM Rishi Sunak...
Octopus buys rooftop solar firm Zestec
Ever-expanding integrated clean power supplier Octopus Energy Generation has completed the purchase of on-roof solar developers & managers Zestec.
With a pipeline of over 100...
Insolation nation: Scots government opens up to the sun
Scotland’s devolved coalition government has pledged to harness more of the nation’s solar energy potential, promising to “co-design Holyrood’s draft solar vision” with installers...
“Set the controls for ten times more sun”: Holyrood MSPs take a shine to...
Lawmakers from five parties have pledged support for Scotland to reach between 4GW and 6GW of solar power-making capacity by 2030, up from 0.4...