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Last week (16 June) saw Voltalia inaugurate its largest-to-date UK solar farm through a Corporate Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with City of London Corporation.

Octopus Energy has installed solar panels in 13 houses on one street in Walthamstow, East London to create a ‘solar street’.

Network solutions company Alcemi has been granted planning permission to develop “one of Europe’s largest energy storage facilities”.

Solar Power Portal spoke with solar security experts CTSG about the challenges of protecting the growing number of solar plants in the UK from theft.

Gore Street Energy Storage Fund has confirmed that it secured “record prices” in the T-4 2023 Capacity Market auction.

Renewable energy company Pacific Green Technologies has agreed to sell a 99MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at Richborough Energy Park for £74 million.

On Wednesday (14 June), energy supplier OVO Energy launched OVO Solar – a new solar package with the potential to save customers up to 90% on energy bills.

The High Court has ruled in favour of two solar projects being developed by solar developer Lightsource bp in the county of Durham.

Following success in securing £25,855 in funding from the UK Government’s Innovation competition, EDF UK R&D has announced it will explore space-based solar opportunities.

Journalist Andrew Neil weighed in on the UK’s solar output after the government ordered a coal-fired power plant to move to standby as energy demand soared in the summer heat. However, his pronouncements, based largely on a Telegraph article, lacked context and nuance. UK Editor John Lubbock explains why he is wrong about the UK solar sector.