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Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) tariffs have been unveiled after the legislation came into full effect yesterday (1 January 2020), with pricing ranging wildly from Social Energy’s 5.6p per kWh down to the barely-compliant 0.001p per kWh that Shell Energy is offering.

Zero carbon sources, including solar, generated more power in 2019 than fossil fuels in a historic first, according to National Grid.

Gresham House Energy Storage Fund has completed its acquisition of the 49MW Red Scar battery.

The Solar Power Portal editorial team will now be taking a short break over the holiday season.

Liam Stoker and Andy Colthorpe reflect on this year’s energy storage headlines, and do their best to predict what the energy transition may hold in store in 2020.

Oxford City Council is lauding what it claims is one of the UK’s “largest public solar carports”.

Shell Energy’s Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) tariff is to launch later in 2020 than the 1 January implementation date, it told Solar Power Portal.

The Irish government has confirmed new details surrounding the country’s eagerly anticipated renewables auction, due to kick-off next year

Ofgem is issuing a final call for information on “dormant” feed-in tariff (FiT) installations still awaiting accreditation.

GRIDSERVE has completed its “game changing” hybrid solar-plus-storage site in York, becoming the first utility-scale solar farm in the UK to use both trackers and bifacial solar panels.