Clean Energy

As electrical contractors and installers flock to the burgeoning storage market, there are warnings over mis-selling, training and calls for clarity over required filings. Liam Stoker reports.

Battery storage has dominated the outcome of the National Grid’s 200MW Enhanced Frequency Response (EFR) tender, with the technology to be used for balancing services at grid scale for the first time in the UK.

The UK can successfully tackle the challenges of the energy trilemma without building Hinkley Point C according to a new report from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) out today.

Six months on from the introduction of new feed-in tariff rates for UK solar, the Solar Trade Association’s chief executive Paul Barwell sets out its key asks for the new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy when it comes to solar policy.

Lauren Cook, market analyst at Solar Media, looks at the types of developers vying for position in the nascent solar market of Ireland ahead of the government’s policy framework expected in the coming months.

Solar Power Portal runs through the nominations for this year’s Commercial Renewable Heat Project award.

A Suffolk local authority has become the owner of one of the largest council-owned solar farms in the country after using capital reserves to purchase the Toggam Farm solar farm, in Lakenheath.

The major broadcasting firm has embraced solar after a 463.4 kWp system was completed in West London earlier this year.

A research project underway at two universities to create a tool aiding solar developers in assessing the environmental impacts of a new project is calling on industry to take part in its work.

The results of the hugely over-subscribed enhanced frequency response tender are due to be published next Friday, however the UK’s battery storage market faces a raft of regulatory hurdles before it can truly take off.