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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
“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...
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,...
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...
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...