EDF Power Solutions has today (3 July) announced that it has taken on a major solar development from Low Carbon.

‘We can capitalise right across the country,’ said Michael Shanks MP at this year’s Clean Power 2030 Summits.

Shell Energy Europe has joined forces with Vodafone Procure & Connect to establish how battery energy storage systems (BESS) could become an increasingly important part of grid management systems in the years to come.

Ofgem has given the provisional green light to an initial £24 billion investment programme to enable the transmission of clean energy from renewable sources.

The Solar Power Portal team is at the UK Solar Summit in London today (1 July) reporting live from the event. Our rolling coverage can be found here; check back throughout the day to stay up-to-date as the event goes on.

Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has completed construction and started commercial operations of the 373MW Cleve Hill Solar Park, now the largest operational in the UK.

The UK government has today published its Solar Roadmap, a government-industry paper setting out practical measures to meet solar capacity targets.

The latest figures from the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) show that solar capacity has risen by 8.1% year on year.

Monika Paplaczyk, chief investment officer at Thrive Renewables, who spoke to PV Tech Premium about the UK renewable energy sector this week, said UK solar delivery is increasingly complex.

Battery energy storage system (BESS) developer Firstway Energy has announced it has successfully secured planning consent for a new BESS project in Derbyshire.