The renewables arm of German industrial conglomerate BayWa Group has revealed that only 34% of UK business leaders don’t think a full renewable energy transition will be achieved before 2050 in the UK, whilst 13% doubted it would ever be achieved.
The solar industry has welcomed the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s (DESNZ) plans to reform its flagship renewable energy generation scheme to reward applicants for including factors other than price.
Following a tumultuous 2022, the Government’s new Energy Security Plan was a hugely welcome ray of sunshine for the solar industry. Solar Energy UK’s senior communications adviser Gareth Simkins reflects on the transformation of attitudes in Downing Street.
Caerphilly County Borough Council has put forward development proposals for the largest publicly owned solar farm in Wales – a 20MW site at Cwm Ifor Farm in Penyrheol.
The 5MW Whites Pit solar farm in Wimborne, Dorset, has been commissioned by renewable energy Ethical Power to provide power to the Dorset Green Hydrogen project.
Ethical Power Development Ltd, part of the Ethical Power Group, has acquired the development business of Public Power Solutions (PPS), including a pipeline of solar and energy storage projects with a potential capacity of over 250MW.
