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Renewable energy supplier Good Energy has launched a new smart export tariff for households with solar panels that will see 10p paid per kWh.

North Ayrshire Council has awarded the tender of delivery for two Council-owned solar farms to construction engineering company Ameresco.

UK power generator SSE has confirmed it will allocate £100 million in capital to boost Coire Glas – a Scottish-based pumped hydro storage project with the potential to be the “biggest” in 40 years.

Geoenergy company dCarbonX has signed an agreement with Irish-based utility ESB to expand its collaboration to evaluate and progress onshore large-scale subsurface hydrogen energy storage opportunities in the UK.

Danish power company Ørsted has completed the acquisition of a 160MW solar farm, developed by renewable energy developer Terra Solar, in south-east Ireland.

Asahi Europe & International (AEI), the international branch of the food and beverage company, Asahi Group Holdings, has signed a multi-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with European Energy to receive solar power from a 19MW solar farm in Bath.

Lobbying from Solar Energy UK has paid off, the trade association has said, with the government changing its stance on VAT for battery storage.

One of the globe’s most iconic cathedrals, York Minster, is set to install solar PV panels onto its roof following approvals by City of York Council (CoYC) and the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England.

Solar PV developments could be in jeopardy due to the rising cost of capital which threatens to derail renewable energy projects in the UK, Cornwall Insight has said.

A project from Northumbria University, aiming to accelerate the delivery of solar power from space has received a £150,000 investment from the aerospace company, Lockheed Martin.