Solar Media Staff

A 99.9MW energy storage project in development by RES has secured planning permission, with the asset set to be operational in late 2023.

Gore Street Energy Storage Fund has acquired an 80MW energy storage project from RES, having also entered into exclusivity with the renewable energy company for over 300MW of assets.

Octopus Renewables has announced a new partnership with Zestec Asset Management to deliver more than £100 million of new build UK solar assets.

JLEN is to fund new battery storage and biogas investments with the proceeds of a new oversubscribed £56.9 million placement.

Aberla Energy has delivered a contract to design, supply and install a 50kWp rooftop-mounted solar PV system for Herefordshire Council.

Last year, renewable capacity additions were up by 45% globally to almost 280GW, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

The next Contracts for Difference auction will open to applications in December 2021.

A 5MW/7.45MWh battery storage project near Milton Keynes – Thrive Renewables’ first – has this month entered into construction.

Solar Power Portal caught up with Open Climate Fix co-founder Dr Jack Kelly – a former engineer at Google DeepMind – to discuss where transformer models came from, how they can apply to solar forecasting and how they could change the energy sector.

Resource management company Veolia is set to double its renewable electricity capacity, deploying solar panels across restored landfill sites.