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In this guest blog Tom Shakhli, head of project success at the community fundraising platform, Spacehive, discusses trends within community-funded renewable projects.

World leaders reached a final determination at the COP28 summit in Dubai, calling for a global effort to triple renewable energy capacity and “transition away” from fossil fuels.

The UK Battery Strategy is intended as a roadmap to establishing a competitive value chain. As such, it has been welcomed, but falls short in recognising the potential for the battery energy storage system (BESS) sector to make an important contribution to the economy and to the nation’s net zero ambitions, writes Nick Bradford, managing director of energy storage developer Atlantic Green.

The UK solar industry is set to add an additional 1.7 GWp-dc of new solar PV capacity in 2023, continuing its post-subsidy (FiTs and ROCs), growth phase towards being a multi-GW market over the next few years, according to the latest research findings from the Solar Media Market Research team.

Nick Bradford from Atlantic Green UK, discusses what the government’s decarbonisation delays mean for the UK BESS development.