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A new record for solar generation in Ireland was set in March, according to Irish grid operator EirGrid.

On 1 April, between 12:30 and 13:00, Great Britain secured a new maximum solar generation record of 12.2GW.

The Planning Inspectorate has accepted two utility-scale solar PV plants for examination: German power company RWE’s 320MW Peartree Hill Solar Farm in the East Riding of Yorkshire and PS Renewables and Ørsted’s 740MW One Earth Solar Farm in Nottinghamshire.

New research commissioned by Solar Energy UK has shown that 77% of the UK public supports solar development in their local area.

Energy secretary Ed Miliband has announced the first project that his publicly owned energy company, Great British Energy, will undertake.

In this contributed blog, law firm Osborne Clarke discusses the difficulties surrounding Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations in the UK.

The National Energy System Operator (NESO) has released the provisional T-4 Capacity Market Auction results for delivery in 2028/2029.

Apatura has secured planning permission for a 400MW battery energy storage system (BESS) to be built in central Scotland.

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

Storage and batteries are the “only way” to solve the “massively complex” green grid of the future, managing director of Adaptogen Capital James Mills said on a panel at the Energy Storage Summit in London last week.