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The development is sited near Selby in North Yorkshire. Currently, the largest operational solar plant in Yorkshire is the 55MW Skeeby projects owned and operated by Atrato Onsite Energy (pictured). Image: Atrato Onsite Energy.

Enray Power secures financing for first solar and BESS development

May 9, 2025
Enray Power, a solar PV developer-operator, has reached a financial close for its 68.5MWp solar power plant co-located with a 24MWh battery energy storage system (BESS).
The conversation around solar farms often lacks reliable data, leading to conflicting narratives. Image: Lightrock Power.

Do solar farms boost biodiversity?

May 9, 2025
Understanding the effects on land and biodiversity caused by land-based renewables is far from straightforward, writes Tom Kenning for PV Tech Power.
Ethical Power put forward the three projects via Hive Ethical Project Developments, a joint venture with Hive Energy. Image: Ethical Power.

Ethical Power scores three solar PV planning consents

May 8, 2025
Ethical Power has been granted planning permission for three solar power plants with combined generation capacity of 63.4MW.
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DESNZ launches call for evidence for solar carports in the UK

May 8, 2025
DESNZ has launched a call for evidence to help increase the number of solar-powered carports in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
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UrbanVolt agrees €40 million debt facility with HSBC

May 7, 2025
Dublin-based solar energy firm UrbanVolt has agreed a new €40 million (£34 million) debt facility with international bank HSBC.
Under Macquarie in the UK, Island Green Power will transition from a pure development business into an independent power producer. Image: Island Green Power.

Macquarie takes full ownership of Island Green Power

May 6, 2025
Australian investor Macquarie Asset Management has acquired an additional 50% stake in Island Green Power, a UK-based solar and battery storage developer.
Grid operators need quality data on the solar in their system. Image: Geograph via Wikimedia Commons.

Grid operators must work together in aftermath of Spain and Portugal blackout 

May 6, 2025
Sonia Dunlop, CEO of the Global Solar Council, explains what stakeholders across the energy ecosystem can learn in the aftermath of the electricity grid outage in Europe.
Over the 30-year lifespan of the development (pictured), sheep grazing will take place around the panels. Image: Blenheim Palace/Pete Seaward.

Blenheim Estate solar plant completed, biodiversity ‘already seeing an uplift’

May 2, 2025
Blenheim Estate has become a net generator of green energy following completion of a solar power plant covering 20 acres of the estate’s land.
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UK entering ‘peak period’ of solar PV theft by ‘fully industrialised’ criminal network

May 1, 2025
March and April saw a “significant rise” in thefts and crime at UK solar projects, with 11 reported incidents compared with just three reported in February.
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Local Government Association calls for mandated rooftop solar

April 30, 2025
A new report from the Local Government Association (LGA) has called for all new build homes in the UK to be fitted with solar panels.

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