Solar & Storage Live
3 - 5 October 2017 - Birmingham, UK - The NEC
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Q&A: Emma Bridge, CEO of Community Energy England, on London's draft environmental strategy 19 Sep 2017, 11:04Last month London’s City Hall launched a consultation on its draft environmental strategy, which included a solar action plan to be driven largely by community energy initiatives. Solar Power Portal spoke to Emma Bridge, CEO of Community Energy England and one of the judges of the upcoming Solar Power Portal Awards, to find out her thoughts on Sadiq Khan’s plans for London.
- COMPETITION: Win two tickets to the Solar Power Portal Awards 2017 19 Sep 2017, 10:05
- Bluefield readies value enhancement programme as it ducks asset outages 18 Sep 2017, 12:30
- Centrica completes 3MW battery install for Gateshead Council 18 Sep 2017, 12:26
- S&SL Speaker Spotlight: Virginia Graham, chief executive Renewable Energy Assurance 14 Sep 2017, 12:34
- Solar Power Portal Awards 2017 shortlist spotlight – Commercial Rooftop PV 14 Sep 2017, 12:19
- Dulas boasts ‘significant’ commercial and new build solar pipeline after difficult 2016 14 Sep 2017, 11:23
- Photon on track with rooftop solar system atop HS2 training college 14 Sep 2017, 10:12
- RO accreditation retained by Anesco after adding storage to solar farms 13 Sep 2017, 10:52
- Varta Storage prepares to enter the UK as 'the next market' to open up 12 Sep 2017, 13:42
- BEIS ministers duck clean growth plan questions upon return to parliament 12 Sep 2017, 12:52
- Solar Power Portal Awards 2017 shortlist spotlight – Ground-mount Solar PV 12 Sep 2017, 10:31
- Good Energy to start work on maiden battery storage project in coming months 12 Sep 2017, 09:47
- STA points to 'obvious flaws' in battery degradation study 7 Sep 2017, 12:34
- ROUND-UP: Veolia grows solar on landfill; Renesola 10MW sale; new CEO at Forrest 7 Sep 2017, 11:18
- Solar installers hit back at 'cash grab' fee increase from MCS 7 Sep 2017, 10:40
- Solar Power Portal Awards 2017 shortlist spotlight – Finance Innovation 7 Sep 2017, 09:00
- Less than a month to go until Solar & Storage Live 5 Sep 2017, 11:59
- Solar Power Portal Awards 2017 shortlist spotlight – Residential Rooftop PV Project 5 Sep 2017, 09:00
- South Derbyshire Council approves 40MW ‘Energy Barn’ for Green Hedge 4 Sep 2017, 13:32
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Q&A: Emma Bridge, CEO of Community Energy England, on London’s draft environmental strategy
Last month London’s City Hall launched a consultation on its draft environmental strategy, which included a solar action plan to be driven largely by community energy initiatives. Solar Power Portal spoke to Emma Bridge, CEO of Community Energy England and one of the judges of the upcoming Solar Power Portal Awards, to find out her thoughts on Sadiq Khan’s plans for London.
Solar and wind offer the ‘smart economic choice’ over biomass for UK power
Powering the UK on wind and solar is not only possible, but the “smart economic choice” according to a report which has condemned the future prospects of biomass in the country.
COMPETITION: Win two tickets to the Solar Power Portal Awards 2017
With just two weeks to go until the Solar Power Portal Awards, Solar Media is giving away two tickets to the gala dinner and ceremony taking place in Birmingham on Wednesday 4 October.
Lib Dems call for faster pace of emissions reduction to meet Paris agreement
The UK’s legally binding carbon reduction targets should be brought forward if the country is to meet its obligations under the Paris climate agreement, according to a new report from the Liberal Democrats.
Bluefield readies value enhancement programme as it ducks asset outages
Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF) is to concentrate on enhancing the value of its existing assets after considering attractive secondary market opportunities to be “few and far between”.
Centrica completes 3MW battery install for Gateshead Council
Centrica has completed the installation of a 3MW battery for Gateshead Council, which the utility’s Distributed Energy and Power business has dubbed one of the country's largest commercial battery storage schemes.
S&SL Speaker Spotlight: Virginia Graham, chief executive Renewable Energy Assurance
With less than three weeks to go until Solar & Storage Live, Solar Power Portal has spoken to Virginia Graham, chief executive Renewable Energy Assurance which administers the Renewable Energy Consumer Code, who will take to the stage alongside Martin Cotterell and Graham Kenyon to discuss their co-authored IET Code of Practice for Electrical Energy Storage Systems.
Solar Power Portal Awards 2017 shortlist spotlight – Commercial Rooftop PV
The Solar Power Portal Awards 2017 is now less than two weeks away and the shortlisted entrants have all been publicised.
Dulas boasts ‘significant’ commercial and new build solar pipeline after difficult 2016
Machynlleth-based renewables firm Dulas has pointed towards a “significant” commercial and new build PV pipeline as it look to bounce back from a difficult 2016.
London’s climate progress hampered by lack of national policy says deputy mayor
The absence of central government leadership and national policy is holding back carbon reduction progress and renewable generation deployment, according to London’s deputy mayor for energy and the environment.
Photon on track with rooftop solar system atop HS2 training college
Photon Energy has commissioned a 76.5kWp rooftop solar system for the £21 million HS2 training college in Doncaster.
RO accreditation retained by Anesco after adding storage to solar farms
Ofgem has made a “game changer” decision for UK energy storage by confirming that solar farms are able to retain accreditation under the Renewables Obligation (RO) when supplying electricity to batteries.
Varta Storage prepares to enter the UK as ‘the next market’ to open up
Varta Storage is poised to enter the UK and Ireland residential battery markets through a new exclusive deal with Waxman Energy, with global head Gordon Clements telling SPP the UK is “the next market that will start to open up” for the technology.
BEIS ministers duck clean growth plan questions upon return to parliament
Ministers at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) have ducked a series of questions surrounding the supposedly imminent publication of its delayed clean growth plan.
Solar Power Portal Awards 2017 shortlist spotlight – Ground-mount Solar PV
The Solar Power Portal Awards 2017 is now just three weeks away and the shortlisted entrants have all been publicised, and today we take a look at those projects shortlisted in the ground-mount solar PV category.