Blogs

To find out more about the partnership, Solar Power Portal spoke with James Galloway, European technical director of Segen, Marina Shi, head of AIKO UK, Ireland and Nordics, and Dr Christian Peter, managing director of Solarlab AIKO Europe.

Solar Power Portal sat down with Alisa Papadimitriou, business development director for Europe at Luxen Solar, to discuss the efficiency offering of its N-type TOPCon cells, navigating rapidly changing solar technologies, and its long-term partnership strategies for future success. 

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.

Solar Media’s market research team has now completed a week of site identification, matching up all of the awarded Contracts for Difference (CfD) projects within our overall pipeline of about 90GWp-dc of solar farms in the UK (across more than 1,300 sites).

Vish Sharma, head of power purchase agreements at npower Business Solutions discusses emerging business opportunities for independent solar generators.

Solar in the UK continues to be a huge discussion point for the energy sector. Although barriers in its development and several bottlenecks still remain, particularly in policy, it is clear the solar industry is collectively pulling in the right direction.

If you look online for a list of the biggest solar sites in the UK, you will find a lot of basic and out of date information. This list is changing frequently as big new solar sites are deployed in the UK, and the sites in this list are going to be dwarfed by much larger ones in the years to come.

Solar Power Portal sat down with Andreas Thorsheim, CEO of the solar marketplace, Otovo, to discuss the significant role VPPs have to play in the path to a smart net zero.

YLEM head of solar Sophie Lamb writes about the ongoing skills gap in the UK renewable energy industry and what can be done to emulate the success of other European countries.