UK comes in second in new European PPA Index
New analysis has found that the UK has the second highest proportion of projects with PPA offers out of fourteen European countries.
Articles tagged with: Ppa
Statkraft signs PPA and optimisation contract for York solar-plus-storage site
Statkraft has signed a hybrid power purchase and optimisation agreement with Warrington Renewables (York) Limited.
Bluefield outlines COVID-19 contingency plans as it continues O&M work
Bluefield Solar Income Fund has outlined the measures it's currently taking as part of its COVID-19 (coronavirus) contingency plan, issued in a general update today (25 March).
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Kärcher signs PPA with Zestec, NESF for rooftop solar
A rooftop solar array has been installed at cleaning technology company Kärcher’s headquarters in Banbury, Oxfordshire.
NextEnergy Capital lands Anglian Water solar supply deal
NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) investment manager NextEnergy Capital has penned a power purchase agreement (PPA) for more than 35MW of solar with utility firm Anglian Water.
EDF clinches 25-year solar-plus-storage deal with future UK theme park
EDF has clinched a deal to provide solar, battery storage and other clean energy technologies to a future theme park in the UK.
Brexit, price swings loom large over UK corporate PPA agenda
Renewable players may need to get creative to stop geopolitics and energy market volatility from stifling corporate uptake of clean energy, RE-Source UK event hears.
Corporate PPAs hailed as ‘22TWh opportunity’ for UK renewables
Policy and market signals could pave way for clean energy purchase boom led by solar PV but getting smaller corporates on board will be challenging, London event hears.
Tesco pens PPA deal for 5MW of rooftop solar
Tesco is to install around 5MW of rooftop solar PV across its UK site portfolio after penning a PPA agreement.
Q Cells secures £3.6 million for UK solar farm refinancing
Solar cell manufacturer Hanwha Q Cells has raised £3.6 million for the refinancing of its 4.9MW UK solar plant.
Lightsource BP completes latest subsidy-free, private wire solar farm
Lightsource BP has connected another subsidy-free, private wire solar farm, this time a 2.3MWp install in Lancashire.
Good Energy targeting subsidy-free PPA deals to bolster supply roster
Good Energy is looking to increase its supply roster by offering power purchase agreements to utility-scale solar and wind assets left stranded by cuts to subsidies.
NESF partners Zestec for PPA-backed commercial rooftop push
Leading solar investor NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) has partnered with Zestec Asset Management to acquire to-be-built commercial rooftop solar projects.
Standardisation a ‘long way off’ from solving the ‘gulf’ in corporate PPA understanding
The corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) market is currently struggling from a “large gulf” in understanding that standardisation could solve, but the industry is still a “long way off” from introducing them.
Lightsource BP confirms UK’s ‘biggest ever’ subsidy-free solar deal with Budweiser brewer
Lightsource BP has confirmed that it has clinched a deal with Budweiser brewer AB InBev to develop and operate PPA-backed, subsidy-free solar farms.
Private-wire solar farm powers Swindon recycling centre
A 2.5MW private-wire PV project in Swindon, Wiltshire, has been energised, providing power to an adjacent recycling centre.
Exclusive: Lightsource BP to develop 300MW PPA-backed solar pipeline
Lightsource BP is to deploy more than 300MW of utility-scale solar farms backed by power purchase agreements in the UK, Solar Power Portal can reveal.
NESF turns to Limejump for 120MW PPA deal
NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) has tasked energy aggregator Limejump to trade 120MW of its solar generation through a new power purchase agreement (PPA).
Failing to ‘cross the Rubicon’: education, familiarity and complexity stand in the way of PPAs
A lack of familiarity and education among corporates, and complexity over deal arrangements, is stopping firms ‘crossing the Rubicon’ and signing up to power purchase agreements utilising on-site solar, according to a panel investors speaking at last week’s Solar & Storage Live.
Lightsource BP expands private-wire solar footprint with new 6.42MW install
Lightsource BP has expanded its footprint in the private-wire solar space with the completion of a new project in Northern Ireland.
Macquarie-backed Anglian Water PV programme kicks off with first HBS New Energies install
Solar installer HBS New Energies has completed the first installation for Anglian Water under a 30MW solar deployment programme backed by investment giant Macquarie.
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Northumbrian Water partners Lightsource BP for 10 private wire solar farms
Northumbrian Water has turned to Lightsource BP for the development of 10 ground-mount solar farms to help power its operations.
Foresight doubles down on PPAs to reduce cash flow volatility
Foresight Solar Fund has increased its exposure to solar power purchase agreements (PPAs) to reduce cash flow volatility, the company has said.
Puredrive launches commercial battery PPA offer following social housing success
Puredrive Energy has launched a power purchase agreement (PPA) offer for installations of battery energy storage facilities up to 50kWh to address the different needs of the commercial sector.
Zestec targets commercial rooftop market with multi-million-pound, subsidy-free model
Zestec Asset Management is aiming to ignite the UK’s commercial solar rooftop market with a multi-million pound, subsidy-free model.
Shell to become single off-taker of largest solar farm in England
Shell Energy Europe has signed an initial five year power purchase agreement (PPA) with British Solar Renewables (BSR) to take power generated at England’s largest solar farm at RAF Lyneham.
Bluefield readies value enhancement programme as it ducks asset outages
Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF) is to concentrate on enhancing the value of its existing assets after considering attractive secondary market opportunities to be “few and far between”.
Co-op Energy seeking to bolster community energy portfolio
Independent utility Co-op Energy is looking to boost its portfolio of community energy generators by as much as one-third over the next three years.
Foresight splashes the cash on UK’s largest solar park
Foresight Solar Fund has acquired the 72MWp Shotwick Solar Park, which remains the UK’s largest by generation capacity.
Imperial College trialling track-side solar panels to power trains
Imperial College London is investigating the potential of track-side solar panels to power trains.