Solar Media Staff

As the Scottish election campaigns get underway, Solar Energy Scotland chair Thomas McMillan has called on political parties to up their solar ambitions.

Gore Street Energy Storage Fund’s two Northern Ireland batteries have been completed, taking its operational portfolio up to 210MW.

Scottish clean energy developer ILI Group has announced the sale of its 50MW utility-scale battery project in Fife, Scotland to Abbey Group Cambridgeshire and YooGen1.

Anesco has secured planning permission for a 50MW solar farm in Lincolnshire from East Lindsey District Council.

Global renewables firm RES has unveiled a new a pipeline of solar projects in the UK and Ireland totaling over 1GW.

Alternative asset manager Gresham House has appointed James Lindsay as head of institutional business.

​Scottish Water has announed its “most ambitious solar energy scheme to date”, with an installation planned for its Balmore Water Treatment Works in Torrance, East Dunbartonshire that is expected to generate 4GWh per year.

An additional £300 million of funding for domestic energy efficiency upgrades has been announced, marking an extension of the Local Authority Delivery of the Green Homes Grant.

Two men have been arrested as part of an investigation into the theft of more than £450,000 worth of solar panels.

Octopus Renewables is to be acquired by Octopus Energy, making the supplier one of the largest renewable generation operators in Europe.