renewables

There is now just ONE WEEK remaining to nominate your projects for this year’s Solar Power Portal Awards.

Ecotricity has announced plans for a pilot storage project near its head office in Stroud in the company’s first move into utility scale storage.

Western Power Distribution (WPD) has launched a consultation seeking views on the potential growth of energy storage on its distribution network after receiving an ‘unprecedented’ 8GW of applications in the last 18 months.

The Solar Trade Association (STA) will seek to work with the next government to almost double the UK’s solar capacity by 2022 with an overall aim to reach the Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC) goal of 40GW of solar by 2030.

The Conservative Party has omitted any mention of solar PV in its second consecutive general election manifesto.

A Liberal Democrat-led government would restore support for solar PV cut by the Conservatives, the party’s election manifesto has stated.

The UK has rejoined the top ten most attractive countries for investment in renewables according to ‘Big Four’ consultancy EY’s latest index, marking the first increase in its placing since 2013.

The Green Party has pledged to kick-start solar and other renewable technologies with new support schemes as part of the creation of an “energy system fit for the 21st century” set out in its energy and the environment manifesto.

There are now less than three weeks left to nominate your projects for this year’s Solar Power Portal Awards.

With the UK’s main political parties preparing to unveil their respective election manifestos, the Renewable Energy Association (REA) has unveiled its own equivalent on behalf of the UK’s green economy.