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METKA EGN has announced EPC contract wins for 75MW of new UK projects, the largest being a 20MW storage project, as the company restates its commitment to the UK market.

John Laing Environmental Assets Group (JLEN) is seeking to raise £25 million by way of an initial placing under a fundraising programme to finance a near term pipeline of solar, wind and biomass projects.

The 365MW solar portfolio owned by SunEdison yieldco TerraForm Power has been sold to Vortex, a European renewables investment platform of private equity firm EFG Hermes.

As UK Solar’s build-phase approaches a hibernation, services such as optimisation and O&M are all the rage. This is seemingly not lost on some energy giants who are beginning to position themselves to cater for such demand. Are they set to take more than their fair share of the pie? Liam Stoker discusses.

NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) has bolted on a further four under-construction solar farms to its growing asset portfolio.

German power company innogy SE – the renewables arm of RWE which trades in the UK under the nPower brand – has completed its purchase of Belectric Solar & Battery.

Primrose Solar has sold five solar farms to socially responsible investor Equitix, completing the sale of all its operational solar farms in the UK.

Solar company Canadian Solar has refinanced 10 solar assets in the UK through NatWest.

Liam Stoker talks to Ricardo Piñeiro, head of UK solar at Foresight Group, about the future of the UK secondary market, how the result of the Brexit referendum could impact upon it, and how Foresight operates its assets after acquiring them.

Renewables developer BayWa r.e. has sold three UK solar assets totalling 30MW in capacity to a new vehicle established by Greencoat Capital.