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Solar PV developer Aura Power has announced that it has successfully secured financing for its third UK solar project.

Earlier this week, TotalEnergies announced it had acquired a pipeline of eight solar projects from Low Carbon with a total capacity of 350MW, along with two battery storage projects totalling 85MW.

Changes to the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme will replace the monetary budget applied to allocation rounds with a ‘capacity ambition’.

The UK government is consulting on reforms to its renewables auction scheme, including a longer target commissioning window (TWC) for solar PV.

Josh Cornes, analyst at Solar Media Market Research, looks at what 2025 might hold for the solar industry.

Analysis from energy market analytics firm Aurora has shown that negative price periods in Britain were six times more frequent in 2024 than in 2022.

A 300MW/600MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) co-located with Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 Offshore Wind Farm onshore substation is expected to come online in 2026.

Director of solar energy specialists Infrabee, Henry Brown (MRISC) discusses the need for more robust physical and regulatory infrastructure.

Solar Media analyst Josh Cornes explores how the most recent Contracts for Difference auction will affect the UK solar industry.

Analysis from Modo Energy has revealed that renewable energy projects awarded contracts under the Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round 6 (AR6) could facilitate 1.4GW of co-located battery energy storage systems (BESS).