Solar Markets & Finance

Cambridgeshire County Council has received planning permission for what it claims will be the UK’s largest solar carport.

Renewables investment manager FIM Services is aiming to capitalise on the UK’s booming secondary PV market by expanding its solar fund.

Green Hedge has secured £30 million of investment from infrastructure investor Zouk Capital to help it chase battery storage developments.

The European renewables lobby has leapt to the defence of the sector, warning that a withdrawal of priority dispatch for renewables would be counterproductive.

The UK’s solar capacity could soar to as much as 44GW by 2050 if consumers take command of their own power supply, National Grid has forecasted.

Solar Power Portal is delighted to today reveal the entries that have been shortlisted for this year’s Solar Power Portal Awards.

There is now more than 200MW of capacity within the residential solar feed-in tariff (FiT) cap as the regime enters the second half of its operation.

Shortly after Foresight Group made its first battery storage acquisition Solar Power Portal caught up with Dan Wells, partner at the investment group, to discuss the domestic storage market’s prospects and how Foresight views the nascent sector.

A war of words has erupted between Good Energy and its clean energy rival – and largest shareholder – Ecotricity over payments to a solar development firm belonging to Juliet Davenport’s husband.

The very first grants from a 50MW solar farm in Swindon are to be allocated over the next three months.