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Octopus Investments has made its maiden move into the UK’s networks sector, making a multi-million-pound investment into G2 sister company Eclipse Power.

Representatives of some of solar PV’s leading European finance houses will meet in London this week as the continent’s solar industry inches ever closer to grid-parity.

Small-scale solar PV installations have maintained their priority dispatch rights in Europe after a vote by European Union Member States last week.

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.

Tesco is planning a major rollout of solar on the roofs of its stores in the UK, Solar Power Portal can reveal.

A new start-up energy supplier is aiming to become the ‘Uber of electricity’ by turning homes into personal power stations.

Solar is to help renewables become the “dominant force” of Great Britain’s energy mix by as early as next year, a new report has found.

Almost £2 million in new European funding is to support the development of a “new wave” of energy projects in the South West.

BayWa r.e. has landed a contract to provide operations and maintenance services to Octopus Investments for 13 of its UK solar farms.

The government’s Smart Export Guarantee (SEG), its eagerly awaited replacement for the soon-to-close export tariff, has been dubbed both a “new era” for solar and a “mountain to climb” as the proposals received a mixed response.