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Rejection of zonal pricing brings ‘clarity not resolution’

July 11, 2025
The government’s decision to rule out a zonal electricity pricing system brings to a close a period of intense energy sector debate.
Another of the identified ‘growth-driving’ sectors Advanced Manufacturing includes batteries alongside areas such as aerospace and automotive. Image: Jinko Solar.

UK Industrial Strategy: solar, storage ‘vital’ to clean energy mission

June 24, 2025
As part of its Industrial Strategy, the UK government has published the Clean Energy Industries Plan to “unleash the tidal wave of jobs and investment” that the energy transition will bring.
At the keynote Unleashing the Rooftop Revolution, opening a stream dedicated to rooftop and community solar, hear how acceleration in rooftop deployment creates new opportunities for developers. Image: AMPYR Distributed Energy.

Rooftop revolution and community benefits: Policy updates from the UK Solar Summit 2025

June 18, 2025
Just two weeks until the UK Solar Summit 2025, here are some of the latest policy updates shaping UK solar.
The FHS will state that if developers cannot meet requirements to install rooftop solar PV coverage equivalent to 40% of a building’s floor area, a “reasonable amount” of coverage is still required. Image: Geograph via Wikimedia Commons.

Government to mandate rooftop solar for new builds

June 6, 2025
Ministers have confirmed the Future Homes Standard (FHS) will include provision that all new build properties have solar PV installed.
Schools in Birmingham are among those to have had solar systems installed as part of a National Grid scheme. Image: National Grid.

Government invests £630 million in public sector decarbonisation

May 15, 2025
The government has allocated over £630 million funding towards upgrades for public buildings that will help reduce energy costs.
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.
McGrail (pictured) will work on an initial six-month contract, on secondment from RenewableUK, and recruitment for the permanent CEO will begin shortly. Image: RenewableUK.

RenewableUK’s Dan McGrail made interim GB Energy CEO

February 21, 2025
The solar industry “warmly” welcomes RenewableUK chief executive Dan McGrail’s appointment as interim CEO of Great British Energy.
It has been suggested that to meet the UK’s net zero goals, solar PV would take up 0.29% of available land (and 0.51% of all available agricultural land). Image: Pexels.

Government launches land use framework to protect high quality farmland, support clean energy ambitions

February 3, 2025
The UK government has opened consultation on a land use framework that could make it less likely “high quality farmland” is lost to renewable energy projects.
The chancellor of the exchequer set out her vision for the UK’s economic growth, calling net zero the “industrial opportunity of the 21st Century”. Image: Lauren Hurley / No. 10 Downing Street via Flickr.

Government’s National Wealth Fund invests in Cornish mining

January 31, 2025
The government-backed National Wealth Fund will invest in Cornish Metals, which could mine critical minerals needed for solar panel production.

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