Construction firm Multiplex to build own UK solar farm for dedicated PPA

International green building contractor Multiplex today pledged itself to the building of a new 15 MWp UK solar farm, as part of its plan...

Windel and Canadian Solar eye a further 1.5 GW of UK battery projects

For the second time in less than a year, British renewables developer Windel Energy and integrated module manufacturer Canadian Solar have teamed up to...

Green hydrogen “cheaper now than grey” say analysts, as Getech eyes Shoreham as H2...

Soaring gas prices have rendered green hydrogen cheaper now in the UK than its grey, methane-based sister, analysts have claimed. London-based consultancy ICIS calculate that...

Investors’ sun splash for solar, as Octopus, Atrato and NESF flare big cash

Amid finally nippy autumnal weather, solar electricity in the UK today basked under the cool, clear skies of a continuing investment boom. As UK solar...

Energy activists supply premium clothing brand

Energy Garden, a network of community energy projects in London, from next month will supply renewable electricity to two outlets of Patagonia, the upmarket...

Contracts for Difference auctions open: AR4 “bigger than all the rest”

Power developers in clean tidal, solar, and wind technologies jumped at the starting gun today, competing for a slice of the government’s record £285...

Onshore wind supported by 80% of Brits, as renewables resisters change minds or die

Britons’ resistance to renewable energy continues to weaken even among the old, the government’s long-term tracking study of public attitudes indicates. A combined 87% of...

2021 is solar’s best year yet in Europe, trade body finds

Solar PV deployment this year in the EU was the fastest in the technology’s history, industry advocates SolarPower Europe have calculated. Defying the continuing pandemic,...

“Got a grand, Grant? Capital!” Mayor Khan & solar lobby boost training with £1,000

Trade body Solar Energy UK and London’s Mayor are delivering £1,000 grants to firms eager to train up the next generation of skilled installers...

“Mid-West” municipal developer targets 250MWp of solar by 2025

Swindon Borough Council’s renewables development arm has sealed a deal with private partners to expand its grid-scale PV and battery portfolio. The municipally controlled Public...

Solar: Good Energy quits generation, SSE snaps up first PV project

The sun rose this morning on a changing solar landscape across Britain, as clean energy pioneer Good Energy quit generation and renewables super-developer SSE...

Only a quarter of solar farms’ closest neighbours ‘opposed’; against 56% ‘in favour’

The weakening myth that most Brits object to big solar farms grew further enfeebled today, as research from the PV industry's main lobby group...

Electrifying performance: Berlin’s Olympic Stadium to get solar PV

The Olympic athletics track on which legendary sprinter Jesse Owens defied Nazi racism in 1936 is soon to be further enhanced, being overlooked with...

Shell’s 2021 profits quadruple

As 25 million British consumers awaited news this morning of a new Ofgem-sanctioned price cap set push energy bills up an eye-watering 50%, fossil...

Glasgow Airport to install 15 MWp of ground mounted solar PV

Scotland’s busiest airport may be powered exclusively by solar-generated electricity as early as next year. Glasgow Airport’s owners AGS Airports are seeking planning permission to...

Norwegians eye England’s East Coast for 2 solar projects, plus battery

Norway’s state-owned renewables generator Statkraft is seeking planners’ permission to develop two solar parks in Yorkshire and Suffolk.  A combined investment in excess of...

Solar & wind farms pumping green hydrogen?  Octopus and BayWa set up homes together

Low-carbon hydrogen electrolysed onsite at Britain’s solar & wind farms moved from vision to incipient reality this week, as clean power developers BayWa r.e....

“To the roofs, and beyond!” Lockdowns can’t stop record 2021 for UK solar

Solar bosses are today hailing 2021 as another record-busting twelve months for clean PV-generated power.  Figures just released prove gigawatts of the speedily deployed...

Brighton Energy Co-op advertises commercial roof projects seeking PV installers’ bids

One of Britain’s longest established community-accountable energy co-operatives has started to advertise projects seeking competitive bids from solar installers. Brighton Energy Cooperative is advertising upcoming...

Foresight basks in the sun, plugs first battery into earnings 22% above expectations, NAV...

Leading PV and battery investor Foresight Solar Fund reaped its rewards today from international expansion and the UK solar boom, posting 2021 EBITDA earnings...