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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Brighton co-op secures EU cash for SMEs’ solar arrays

Whether "got done" already or only just beginning, the little matter of Brexit has not stopped a far-sighted energy co-operative from offering EU-sourced grants...

Welsh and Scots cities benefit from green marine power, green H2 and green mobility

Three cities outside England may reap rewards from major green developments, under proposals announced coincidentally in recent days. Blue Eden is Swansea's latest £1.7 billion...

Solar, plus zip: PV scoops Putin-esque 99.8% majority of SEG projects

The first fifteen months of Britain’s Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) for microgeneration projects saw solar PV take an overwhelming 99.8% share of projects registered,...

Morocco unbound: £16 billion green power pipe mooted to Devon giga-battery

British energy entrepreneurs Xlinks have unveiled ambitious plans to link solar and wind power generated in the Moroccan desert with UK power consumers via...