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Northumberland County Council has opened a new solar car port array set to save between £100,000 and £150,000 in energy costs.

Renewable energy developer Cambridge Power has secured planning permission to deliver a battery storage project, the first under UK Power Networks’ (UKPNs) Regional Development Programme (RDP).

Solar Power Portal takes a look at how current grid connection timeframes are lengthening for UK solar, while new dynamics emerge with landowners.

A total of 34 new solar generation sites and nine battery storage sites have secured connection contracts with UK Power Networks (UKPN) between January and May in Essex, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

Construction has got underway for Renewables developer Fotowatio Renewable Ventures’s (FRV) second battery storage project in the UK, together with partner Harmony Energy.

A new trial dubbed Core4Grid, aggregating a household’s green technology – including solar and battery storage – into one system, has been unveiled.

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

Residential solar and storage is to provide flexibility to UK Power Networks (UKPN) as part of a new local energy market (LEM) trial in Brixton.

Distribution network operator (DNO) UK Power Networks has officially put its landmark ‘Smarter Network Storage’ Leighton Buzzard battery up for sale.

The Solar Trade Association (STA) has published the industry’s first best practice guide to mitigating network outages for both network operators and solar farms.