Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has officially opened what is said to be one of Scotland’s “most sustainably built colleges”, featuring a 26.22kW solar installation.
Octopus Energy’s generation arm has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the UK food retailer, Iceland Foods, to provide 150 of its sites with an estimated 64GWh of solar energy.
Clean energy company Good Energy has recognised a growing appetite for solar generation with over 250,000 UK-based households considering a solar installation by 2026.
Almost a year after Ripple Energy’s first consumer-owned wind farm went live, the company has announced that its third shared renewable energy project will be a solar park in England.
Bluefield Solar’s gains from fixed PPA prices will be largely offset by the new windfall tax on low-carbon generation, it said in its report for the second half of 2022.
UK-based solar developer Boom Power has confirmed that over 1GW of its solar and battery energy storage projects will go into planning over the course of 2023.
Pan-European residential solar marketplace, Otovo, has launched in the UK, and promises to grant UK customers an online toolbox to switch to solar, and save 49% on their energy bills.
Solarsense has reported a 400% increase in the number of commercial enquiries it has had for solar installations from the manufacturing sector in 2022.