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Energy secretary Ed Miliband speaks and gestures out a hand on stage

Government reforms CfD rules for AR7

July 16, 2025
The UK government has greenlit a series of rule modifications for the upcoming Allocation Round 7 (AR7) auction round for the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme.
Solar Power Portal spoke to LCCC CEO Neil McDermott ahead of the UK Solar Summit 2025 about the role of CfD in providing a route to market and bringing solar projects to realisation. Image: Ethical Power.

Clean Power 2030 a ‘tremendous opportunity’ for the solar industry

June 20, 2025
Solar Power Portal discusses solar PV’s role in the UK’s Clean Power 2030 ambitions with one of the key figures in delivering CFDs and the Capacity Market.
wildflowers under solar panels

Aura Power lands finance for Grimsby solar project

June 10, 2025
Solar PV developer Aura Power has announced that it has successfully secured financing for its third UK solar project.
All of the sites are in the south of England and two are co-located with BESS. Image: Low Carbon.

TotalEnergies UK solar acquisition sites revealed

June 6, 2025
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.
EDF Renewables’ Longfield Solar Energy Farm won 299MW in the sixth round of the scheme. Image: EDF Renewables.

Contracts for Difference to be awarded on capacity ambition not monetary budget

May 12, 2025
Changes to the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme will replace the monetary budget applied to allocation rounds with a ‘capacity ambition’.
While the majority of generating technologies eligible for CfD allocation have TWCs of 12 months, solar has a three-month window due to its relatively quick pace of commissioning. Image: Unsplash.

Government proposes longer commissioning window for solar CfDs

February 24, 2025
The UK government is consulting on reforms to its renewables auction scheme, including a longer target commissioning window (TWC) for solar PV.
Large-scale ground-mount installations in 2024 saw the largest growth, making up 60% of the annual capacity. Image: Sebastian Ganso, Pixabay.

UK solar deployment poised to increase 50% YoY, following rapid growth in the second half of 2024

January 21, 2025
Josh Cornes, analyst at Solar Media Market Research, looks at what 2025 might hold for the solar industry.
Power demand has fallen in Britain by over 20% since 2010, with improved energy efficiency and reduced output in the commercial and industrial sectors being the dominant cause of this. Image: Elexon.

Aurora: BESS successful as negative price periods increase

December 30, 2024
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.
The co-located BESS development is the result of three years’ collaboration between Ørsted, NESO and National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET). Image: Jason Bye via Ørsted.

Ørsted’s 300MW/600MWh BESS a ‘blueprint for the future’

December 3, 2024
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) believes the time for positive change has come. Image: Infrabee.

Why Contracts for Difference must evolve if the UK is to truly become a clean energy superpower

October 24, 2024
Director of solar energy specialists Infrabee, Henry Brown (MRISC) discusses the need for more robust physical and regulatory infrastructure.

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