Every photon helps: Tesco to install solar on 100 more stores before 2027

Mega-retailer and solar power leader Tesco has unveiled plans to install PV arrays on one hundred more of its UK stores in only the...

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,...

Towering in-farm-o: V-FAST gorges on vertical feast

Vertical, temperature-controlled, giant indoor fruit and veg farms powered by Scottish renewables are the vision of a four-company consortium announced today. Power storage and clean...

Developer Renewco launches with SSE’s blessing

A new clean power developer launched this week in Edinburgh, buoyed with £ 24 million worth of backing from industry giant SSE. Renewco Power, co-led...

Labour commits to 40 GW of solar by 2030, plus Sizewell C &  mini...

The Labour Party has sought to steal the Johnson administration’s clothes by putting out its own 5-point strategy to address energy security and the...

How can developers prioritise sustainability in their housing networks?

The importance of sustainable practices in housing projects is more evident now than ever before. As climate change accelerates and energy costs rise, sustainable...

“Naysayers”, “wading through treacle” & policy voids dog Britain’s booming green sector, REA finds

Britain’s Net Zero commitments are being hampered by government hesitancy & ambiguity around the nation’s otherwise surging green economy, a leading trade association claims...

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...

Battery bonanza: Twenty-fold storage expansion to characterise the world in the 2020s, say Bloomberg

Energy practitioners all sense it. Now a leading consultancy is the latest to put numbers around the intuition: “The 2020s are the decade of...

Zenobē signs Stateside deal with Japanese partner

Founded only five years ago, the London-based operator says its 235MW of grid-connected batteries in the UK contributes to its status as the largest...

Octopus & public pension fund partners buy 12.5% of world’s biggest windfarm

Renewables mega-investor Octopus Energy Group is teaming up to pay a combined £400 million for a one-eighth stake in Hornsea One, the world’s biggest...

Dawidosky completes management revolution at turbine makers Siemens Gamesa

Turbine-maker-in-a-spin Siemens Gamesa has appointed Tim Dawidowsky as its new chief operating officer. The Hispano-German combine last month hired new CEO Jochen Eickholt in a...

Thirty GW by 2030: Ørsted deigns to deliver 48% steady state growth

Europe’s leading turbine spinners Ørsted today posted first half results that see the Danish operators advancing steady state earnings by nearly 50%, to the...

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...

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’,...

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...

Solar chiefs to PM: Get real, and un-Truss more land for PV

Bosses of Britain’s busy solar sector today gave the government food for thought, urging  solar sceptic Liz Truss to get behind the industry. Representatives of...

Investors Next Energy Solar Fund and Bluefield hike quarterly asset valuations

NextEnergy Solar Fund and Bluefield Solar Income Fund today separately signal to LSE followers quarterly rises in net asset value of  8.2% and 10%...

H2 trick! Carlton nets third hub, secures consent for City’s green gas plant serving...

Manchester’s third hat-trick in 24 hours arrived this morning, as innovators Carlton Power announced planning clearance for the North West’s first low-carbon hydrogen hub. Trafford...

Shapps “will not add H2 introduction charge” to bills; hints other green levies may...

An interview given by energy secretary Grant Shapps yesterday has prompted new speculation that green levies mandated to spur renewables could return to bills...