Good Energy partners Belectric, Powerstar for C&I battery storage push
Good Energy has turned to Belectric and Powerstar to help bolster its C&I battery storage offering.
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Immersa pens strategic partnership with vanadium flow machine specialist CellCube
Immersa has penned a strategic partnership with Canadian battery storage manufacturer CellCube to bring large-scale vanadium redox flow battery systems to the UK.
Exclusive: Anesco completes internal restructure as 18 jobs are lost
Anesco has begun an internal restructure which will see several business units merged and as many as 18 jobs lost from the renewables firm, Solar Power Portal can reveal.
Varta battery software update to introduce new grid charging function
Battery manufacturer Varta is to rollout a software update to UK customers in March introducing a new, grid-charging function to its installed domestic batteries.
UKPN puts landmark Leighton Buzzard battery up for sale
Distribution network operator (DNO) UK Power Networks has officially put its landmark ‘Smarter Network Storage’ Leighton Buzzard battery up for sale.
UK to join Europe’s subsidy-free solar ‘vanguard’ in 2019
Wood Mackenzie has predicted that the UK will join Europe’s “vanguard of subsidy-free utility-scale solar PV” in 2019 as project costs continue to fall.
Cambridgeshire County Council unveils ‘first of their kind’ landfill solar-plus-storage parks
Cambridgeshire County Council (CCC) has unveiled two landmark solar-plus-storage projects on existing landfill sites which aim to be the first of their kind in the UK.
Exclusive: Tesco plotting UK superstore solar rollout programme
Tesco is planning a major rollout of solar on the roofs of its stores in the UK, Solar Power Portal can reveal.
New start-up energy supplier launches solar-powered, Uber-inspired domestic energy offering
A new start-up energy supplier is aiming to become the ‘Uber of electricity’ by turning homes into personal power stations.
BEIS eyeing relaxed planning conditions for co-located storage sites
The government is seeking to remove a significant hurdle for utility-scale co-located storage sites, enabling projects with combined capacities in excess of 50MW to proceed without requiring government consent.
Shell partners Anesco for UK battery storage
Anesco and Shell’s New Energies division are to partner on a utility-scale battery storage project in Norfolk.
Solar and storage possess ‘mutually beneficial interaction’ in Capacity Market, National Grid says
Solar and storage technologies would possess a “mutually beneficial interaction” in the Capacity Market (CM) should renewables be introduced into the mechanism, National Grid has said.
Ireland’s solar-plus-storage VPP trial to get underway with January installs
The first domestic battery storage installations under the StoreNet project are to complete before the end of this month in what’s a first of its kind for Ireland.
Premier Inn partners with E.On for UK’s first battery-powered hotel
Premier Inn has installed a 100kW lithium ion battery at its Gyle at Edinburgh Park hotel in the Scottish capital, claiming it to be the first battery-powered hotel in the UK.
Solar stories of 2018, part four: Claire Perry’s U-turn and subsequent U-U-turn
We conclude our recap of the most significant stories of 2018 for UK solar, remembering what happened throughout October, November and December. Energy minister Claire Perry, predictably, features heavily.
Solar stories of 2018, part two: Solar generation records fall and megawatt-scale carports rise
We continue our recap of the most significant stories of the year, today looking back at April, May and June when multi-megawatt solar carports were all the rage and PV generation records tumbled.