Green search engine pinpoints solar PV platform with Euros 20 million
Environmentally-based web search app Ecosia – the internet minnow committed both to paying its taxes & to funding worldwide tree-planting– is investing Euros 20...
Fund promoting co-ops’ power secures £31 million debt rollover from big lender
An investment body promoting community ownership of solar farms has secured refinancing of its assets worth £31 million.
Community Owned Renewable Energy Partners (CORE) is...
Chancellor nixes VAT on home solar, heat pumps, turbines & energy efficiency, exempts commercial...
Rishi Sunak’s spring financial statement this lunchtime saw the Chancellor scrapping VAT on home solar, heat pumps and energy efficiency materials for five years,...
Industry body spells out solar’s value to energy buyers
Clean electricity advocates Solar Energy UK today publish a guide for corporate energy buyers on the merits of on-site arrays.
Unlike domestic power, commercial electricity...
Solar farmers Anesco open Dutch operation
British renewables developer Anesco is powering up international expansion with the launch of its first operation outside the UK.
Wouter Beerten (pictured) joins the company...
Centrica targets 900 MW of UK solar parks, needs Push to start
British Gas’s parent Centrica has inked an outline agreement aimed at achieving 900 MW of solar generation and storage in the UK by 2026.
Partnering...
Teralight seeks 180 MW of solar ventures in Britain
Israeli solar developer Teralight is seeking to launch in the UK, in quest of 180 MW of PV projects.
In the second of today’s stories...
Cooling panels means “solar electricity possible at night”, low wattage breakthrough promises
Solar arrays generating miniscule amounts of power overnight could still charge up mobile phones during the hours of darkness, an experiment at Stanford University...
SSE pays £481 million to tilt at Siemens Gamesa’s sunny windmills
British generator SSE Renewables is set to venture into the Mediterranean wind and solar business, after its purchase today of the southern European assets...
BayWa seeks Derbyshire views on 163 MWp solar farm
Clean power developer BayWa r.e. is inviting Derbyshire folks’ views on a big proposed solar park at Oaklands Farm, near Rosliston in the south...
“Knowing storage, knowing you, a-Ha!” North Norfolk to host digital solution
The fund is set to plug 6MW/12 MWh of storage into one of its 91 UK solar parks, this one deep in the heritage...
Graze expectations: Birds, bees, bugs & biodiversity bigged up in new solar guide
Wild creatures munching grass and sipping nectar from flowers flourishing on pesticide-free ground beneath solar arrays are the focus of a guide just released...
‘Renewables acting like baseload’: Octopus joins Essex-based £16 Bn pipeline to Morocco
Green mega-investor Octopus is teaming up with Billericay-based energy entrepreneurs seeking to pump renewable electricity from southern Morocco to Britain.
Essex start-up Xlinks announced in...
Sunshine on Leith – and up to 6 GW of new PV arrays –...
Scotland could be in for an imminent bonanza in skilled jobs, care of clean, quickly deployed and popular solar power.
In his novel ‘Blandings Castle’,...
Surrey solar array to electrify students
One fifth of the University of Surrey’s electricity may flow from its own 12.2MWp solar farm as early as 2024.
Land at Blackwell Farm, on...
First time solar developer Conrad Energy has 45MWp PV farm approved near Hereford
Planners in rural Herefordshire have praised an application they’ve approved for a giant 45MWp solar farm.
Debutant developer Conrad Energy’s application for the 120 acre...
London calling: More cash for solar installation trades
Mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged more help including a £130,000 skills fund to boost London’s fast-growing solar installations sector.
Solar Skills London, a next generation...
Mitie buys installer Custom Solar for £12.4 million
Facilities and buildings management leader Mitie has bought PV installers Custom Solar, it told investors today.
The fee for the company based in Chesterfield, Derbyshire,...
Britain’s biggest solar PV farm seeks more comments from Lincolnshire neighbours
Altered design and management features of what is believed to be Britain’s biggest solar farm have today been published for public comment.
Developer and asset...
Anesco to part-decarbonise Dragon’s LNG terminal
Gas terminal operator Dragon LNG has teamed up with solar developer Anesco to build a 35-acre PV farm on its land near Milford Haven,...