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UK developer Brockwell Solar and Storage, formerly RNA Energy, has opened statutory consultations for a proposed solar and battery storage development to the northwest of St Neots, on the border between Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire.

Irish energy trading and services company ElectroRoute, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi, has announced it will add to its London-based team.

Ethical investor Triodos Bank UK has provided a £3 million loan to the Solar for Schools Community Benefit Society (CBS).

A new report by energy service provider Joulen, formerly the Electric Storage Company, suggests 0.1% of UK businesses could provide the equivalent power of both Hinkley Point C and 130 grid-scale battery sites by installing battery energy storage.

A coalition of battery energy storage developers says constraint skips are “holding back investment and driving up consumer bills”.

YLEM Energy offshoot Root-Power, which launched earlier this year, has received planning permission for a 12MW/24MWh battery energy storage site in Caterham, Surrey.

The Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) issued a notice last week (13 September) that the government has acquired National Grid’s Electricity System Operator (ESO).

Varco Energy, a UK-based battery asset owner with a pipeline of three long-duration storage projects (LDES), has agreed an asset management software deal with Arenko.

Head of research at PV Tech, Finlay Colville, says overspending in the period from 2021 until 2023 has “finally” impacted the entire solar sector.

Provisional results from the fourth round of the Irish Renewable Energy Support Scheme (RESS 4) reveal that approximately 1,334 MW of onshore renewable electricity won support.