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Cambridgeshire County Council has received planning permission for what it claims will be the UK’s largest solar carport.

Hive Energy has revealed it is planning to build a solar farm in the UK without subsidy support next summer.

SolaX Power has partnered with leading battery manufacturer LG Chem to produce the new SolaX Battery, a high-performance storage solution encompassing the latest lithium-ion battery technology.

UK-headquartered multicrystalline solar wafer producer PV Crystalox Solar has confirmed plans to close its multicrystalline ingot/brick production facilities in Oxford.

Renewables investment manager FIM Services is aiming to capitalise on the UK’s booming secondary PV market by expanding its solar fund.

Labour MP Rachel Reeves, widely tipped as one of the party’s rising stars, has been selected as chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee.

Water utility Welsh Water has announced plans to increase its own suite of onsite renewables as part of a wider decarbonisation effort.

The UK’s solar capacity could soar to as much as 44GW by 2050 if consumers take command of their own power supply, National Grid has forecasted.

There is now more than 200MW of capacity within the residential solar feed-in tariff (FiT) cap as the regime enters the second half of its operation.

Shortly after Foresight Group made its first battery storage acquisition Solar Power Portal caught up with Dan Wells, partner at the investment group, to discuss the domestic storage market’s prospects and how Foresight views the nascent sector.