Growatt building storage installer base as it looks to drive UK market maturity
Chinese manufacturer Growatt has revealed it is building up a base of accredited storage installers in the UK.
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C&I energy storage business cases ‘100% certain’
It is “100% certain” that a solid business case exists for commercial and industrial (C&I) users of electricity in Britain, delegates at this month’s Solar & Storage Live heard.
Vattenfall reaches out to solar farm owners with battery model in co-location push
Electricity and heat generator and retailer Vattenfall is developing a third party model for energy storage deployment which will see the Swedish firm deploy batteries alongside UK solar farms.
London open for business as new solar community energy fund is launched
Sadiq Khan has today opened London’s first community energy fund for solar projects, offering £400,000 over four years to support community energy groups overcome the challenges in getting project off the ground.
Q&A: Wattstor on the SPP Award-winning residential, C&I energy storage project for a care home
An ambitious project to convert the “grey fleet” of a care home for old folk in Scotland to a sustainable “green fleet”, using solar PV and battery energy storage, was winner of the Residential, Commercial and Industrial-scale Storage Project category at last week’s Solar Power Portal Awards. Andy Colthorpe spoke with the project's senior design engineer, Jonothan Oxford of Wattstor.
Clean Growth Strategy: The green economy responds
This morning the government’s long-awaited Clean Growth Strategy was finally published to a mixed response from the renewables lobby. Here we have collated some of the leading commentary so far.
Tesla battery to offer solar energy park ‘a lot more opportunity’ in the future
Kiwi Power is to finance and develop a battery storage project at an energy site including solar in south Wales, where it will provide constant grid services availability to National Grid for two years in a first for the aggregator.
Solar made to wait for future direction as Clean Growth Strategy defers PV policy
The UK solar industry has been made to wait on future government action after the long-awaited Clean Growth Strategy deferred relevant decisions for the technology until later this year.
First completed EFR project announced by E.On
E.On has become the first company to have secured an Enhanced Frequency Response (EFR) contract last year to announce the completion of its project following the installation and connection of its 10MW battery at the Blackburn Meadows biomass plant last month.
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What we learned from Solar & Storage Live 2017
Last week’s Solar & Storage Live saw the UK’s entire supply chain descend on Birmingham’s NEC for three days of industry leading and thought provoking discussions, business brokering and a few celebrations here of there. Liam Stoker summarises some of the things we picked up from the show floor this year.
S&SL: Solar & Storage Today volume three now available to download
The third and final edition of Solar & Storage Today, the daily newspaper which runs parallell to Solar & Storage Live, is now available to download.
S&SL: Industry muses over MCS-styled regulation for storage
Is an MCS-styled regulatory framework required to protect the nascent domestic battery storage market in the UK?
S&SL: More due diligence required in storage O&M, RES Group says
Both storage asset owners and companies setting up to provide O&M services for battery installations need to commit to higher levels of due diligence when selecting contractors according to RES Group’s head of solar and O&M.
Solar Power Portal Awards 2017 picture gallery
A collection of images from last night's Solar Power Portal Awards.
EvoEnergy wins big as Solarcentury chief scoops outstanding achievement award
Nottingham-based EvoEnergy was a major winner at last night’s Solar Power Portal Awards, being crowned 2017 Contractor of the Year as Solarcentury boss Frans van den Heuvel was recognised for his outstanding achievements in the solar sector.
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Solar & Storage Live day two wrap-up
S&SL: Raw material prices and currency fluctuations impacting storage market
Battery vendors are being hit by a combination of rising prices for raw materials and continuing currency uncertainty, resulting in rapidly changing costs for businesses according to Easystart.
S&SL: Growatt building storage installer base as it looks to drive UK market maturity
Chinese energy manufacturer Growatt is building up a base of accredited storage installers in the UK.
S&SL: UK solar defies the deployment figures as market primes for rebound
The UK solar industry has defied a period of low deployment in the UK and turned out in force at the Solar & Storage Live exhibition in Birmingham.
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Solar & Storage Live day one wrap-up
S&SL: Download Solar & Storage Today, volume one
lar & Storage Today, the daily newspaper which runs parallell to Solar & Storage Live, is now available to download.
S&SL: Energy storage the ‘great hope’ for the clean energy sector
Energy storage could be considered the “great hope” for the renewable energy industry in Britain, according to the head of policy at the Renewable Energy Association (REA).
S&SL: NEC signs maiden UK distributed energy storage partner
NEC Energy Solutions has announced Dale Power Solutions as its first qualified UK partner for the manufacturer’s distributed storage solution.
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Solar & Storage Live opens its doors TODAY
Push Energy and PS Renewables announce O&M merger
Push Energy and PS Renewables have formally merged their UK-facing operations and maintenance (O&M) business units, creating a new joint venture dubbed PSH Operations.
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Inside Clay Hill, the UK’s first subsidy-free solar farm
Liam Stoker reports from Clay Hill Solar Farm, the first solar project to be built in the UK without subsidy support, and discovers how the solar-plus-storage facility was energised.
One week left to register for Solar & Storage Live
Visitors have just one week left to register before the doors open for this year’s Solar & Storage Live.
STA in search of new CEO as Paul Barwell prepares to step down
The Solar Trade Association (STA) is on the hunt for a new chief executive after announcing that Paul Barwell will step down after five years in the job.
Anesco lays claim to UK’s first subsidy-free solar farm
UK-based renewables developer Anesco has laid claim to the country’s first subsidy-free solar farm, a 10MW site near Flitwick in Bedfordshire.
Solar Power Portal Awards 2017 shortlist spotlight – Contractor of the Year
The Solar Power Portal Awards 2017 is now less than a week away and the shortlisted entrants have all been publicised.