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The UK minister for Energy Security and Net Zero, Grant Shapps, will tell an audience at London Tech Week that £4.3 million will be awarded to companies and universities to drive innovation in space-based solar projects.

A competitive funding initiative launched by the government to support battery research and development will make £211 million available over the next three years.

A grant scheme funded through solar feed-in tariffs has been launched by energy supplier Centrica.

A solar farm has provided National Grid ESO with reactive power overnight in what is being lauded as a UK first.

The government should provide sustained funding into solar innovation and set a clear vision for the role of flexibility in the energy system, according to a new report.

Solar manufacturer SolarEdge has unveiled a new smart phone app that professes to make inverter installation and commissioning easier for installers.

The Department for Transport (DfT) has awarded multi-million-pound funding to trials of solar used in conjunction with railways, roads and footways.

InnoEnergy has launched a €100,000 (£88,000) innovation competition for electric storage start-ups.

The Solar Power Portal and Energy Storage News Awards 2018 is now just a few weeks away, and we’re profiling some of this year’s shortlisted nominations in the build up to the event. Today, we look at the Product Innovation category.

Nominations for the Solar Power Portal and Energy-Storage.News Awards 2018 are now open and one of our brand new categories this year is for Storage Business Model Innovation.