Downing whets (sic) Southern Water’s solar ambitions with £12 million
Investment management firm Downing is backing Southern Water with around £12 million to build 12 new solar electricity facilities to run the utility’s treatment...
London’s Mayor & Arup announce “Roofs Designed to Cool” plan to fend off heat
A big expansion of solar panels in Britain’s capital city, with buildings retrofitted to reflect summer heat, are the centrepiece of a study by...
“One per cent better every year”: Perovskite pioneers make world’s most productive solar PV...
Solar energy innovators Oxford Perovskite have set a new world efficiency record of 28.6% for photovoltaic cells capable of commercial use.
The new 28.6% benchmark...
Car parks & industrial roofs “can accommodate government’s solar targets”: UCL researchers
Commercial roofs and urban surfaces such as car parks offer enough room in England alone to accommodate Britain’s targeted expansion of solar PV, without...
Cero and Enso agree financing on 50MW battery for Larks Green
The developers of Britain’s first solar farm now generating directly into the nation’s transmission network have agreed financial terms to add a 49.9MW battery...
Solar’s “untapped potential” on commercial roofs & car parks is target of new government-industry...
Warehouses, car parks, schools and shopping malls hold the key to boosting by a factor of five Britain's solar electricity output, or so a...
Britain’s “lack of incentives” prompts Oxford solar pioneers towards US or EU plant; FT...
World-leading solar power pioneers Oxford Perovskite reportedly believe the UK is their “least attractive” option for a new factory to produce the firm's revolutionary...
Another 300MW-plus solar farm highlights need for NSIP reform
The latest proposed addition to Britain’s fleet of giant solar parks is being mooted for a site in the Lincolnshire Wolds.
At 320MWp, developer Windel...
Grid sets new low carbon record in April
Britain’s transmission grid set a new low record for carbon intensity last month, tumbling to 33g/kWh on Monday 10 April.
80% of electricity in early...
Solar surges to eight year highs, promises more
Britain’s solar installers are busier than for nearly a decade, boosting the nation’s PV capacity by 5.3% in the past twelve months to 14.9GWp...
UK academics join European hunt to improve perovskites
Researchers at Teesside & Leicester universities are taking part in a multi-million pound project to develop more efficient and sustainable solar cells, through use...
Ripple Energy offers UK’s first solar farm in shared ownership
Local investors and Britain’s citizens keen on clean power are the target backers for what's claimed as Britain’s first consumer-owned solar farm in shared...
Anesco breaks ground on four solar farms for Gresham House
The four sites are 50MW Low Farm in Skegness, 20MW Beavor Grange in Devon and two more 20MW farms in Derbyshire and Gloucestershire.
All four...
“Once more unto the Breach”: Iceland plugs into Octopus’s Cambs solar farm
Frozen food chain Iceland Foods is the latest High Street brand to sign a PPA (- power purchase agreement -) with a power retailer...
ib vogt & financiers DIF swoop for UK’s biggest storage-and-solar portfolio
Solar farm operators ib vogt and financiers DIF Capital have signed a deal for future purchase of 720MW of consented solar PV sites, in...
EV drivers “seven times more likely” to have home solar installed
Solar installers have always sensed the link between EV drivers and a solar array on their homes' roofs. Now power retailers Good Energy and...
Smart phoning: Vodafone dials into 5 solar farms, as domestic on-roof PV instals double
Mobile telecoms giant Vodafone has reached agreement with Centrica and solar developer Mytilineos to fund five new PV farms, capable of providing it with...
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...