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Portsmouth International Port has completed a solar-battery co-location project meaning solar now provides 35% of the site’s electricity.

Construction analysts Barbour ABI’s research team have found that warehouses hold huge untapped potential to create up to 25GWp of new rooftop solar capacity.

TÜV Rheinland has been unveiled as the new renewable product certification body for the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS).

SSE Renewables has confirmed that its first solar project, located in Worcestershire, has entered construction.

To bolster the UK’s renewable generation capacity, the UK Government has today (3 August) unveiled a £22 million increase in funding for the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme, which will include solar.

Trade body Solar Energy UK has published a new study of public attitudes towards solar development which finds that most people living near solar sites support the technology.

Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT) will invest up to £2 million to set up and fund a new solar and battery storage development business.

The UK government has published solar PV deployment statistics which show a total of 15.2GW of solar capacity, an increase of 6.7% in the year since June 2022.

Qcells and RenEnergy are helping to turn 4,000 m2 of disused space at Cranfield University into an energy saving hub with funding from the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme.

Four batteries totaling 100MWh have been activated by Pulse Clean Energy and Habitat Energy as part of a diesel-to-battery conversion programme in the UK.