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The Solar Power Portal team are onsite for the third and final day of Solar & Storage Live at the NEC in Birmingham, bringing you all the news and views from the conference.

Solar Power Portal listened into the sessions, to hear more on how power prices are driving solar growth and how the narrative needs to develop to help it go even further.

Members of the UK solar industry have voiced support for plans to develop a supply-chain transparency protocol to tackle concerns over forced labour.

Joju Solar has been crowned Contractor of the Year at the 2020 Solar & Storage Live Awards, which also saw Kaluza take home two new prizes.

Anesco has sold on its subsidy-free Clayhill solar farm to GRIDSERVE in a “major step” towards becoming a service provider over asset owner.

Statkraft has signed a hybrid power purchase and optimisation agreement with Warrington Renewables (York) Limited.

Renewables developer GRIDSERVE has entered into a partnership with Hitachi Capital (UK) that has the latter make a multi-million-pound investment.

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.