ground-mount solar

Community Owned Renewable Energy Partners (CORE) and Yealm Community Energy’s (YCE) first ground-mounted 7.3MW solar PV farm has been successfully connected to the grid.

There is a “huge opportunity” for solar in Ireland, with the Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS) providing a route to market for the technology.

Oldham Council has announced its intention to build a 900kW solar farm.

Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF) makes its first move of the year with the acquisitions of three operational UK solar farms.

Smith Brothers Contracting has been confirmed as the Independent Connection Provider (ICP) for the planned 500MW solar-plus-storage Sunnica Energy Farm.

A 1.7MWp solar farm is to be built at Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA), financed by the airport’s investors the Peel Group.

Nominations for the Solar Power Portal and Energy-Storage.News Awards 2018 are now open, and returning once again is the Ground-mount Solar Project of the Year category.

M&S Energy is to offer up to £300,000 in support of community renewables projects across the UK in its third successive Community Energy Fund.