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Battery manufacturer Varta is to rollout a software update to UK customers in March introducing a new, grid-charging function to its installed domestic batteries.

UK-based PassivSystems has been selected to supply smart energy management for a 1GW residential solar programme in Oman.

Distribution network operator (DNO) UK Power Networks has officially put its landmark ‘Smarter Network Storage’ Leighton Buzzard battery up for sale.

Cambridgeshire County Council (CCC) has unveiled two landmark solar-plus-storage projects on existing landfill sites which aim to be the first of their kind in the UK.

A new start-up energy supplier is aiming to become the ‘Uber of electricity’ by turning homes into personal power stations.

The government is seeking to remove a significant hurdle for utility-scale co-located storage sites, enabling projects with combined capacities in excess of 50MW to proceed without requiring government consent.

Anesco and Shell’s New Energies division are to partner on a utility-scale battery storage project in Norfolk.

Solar and storage technologies would possess a “mutually beneficial interaction” in the Capacity Market (CM) should renewables be introduced into the mechanism, National Grid has said.

The first domestic battery storage installations under the StoreNet project are to complete before the end of this month in what’s a first of its kind for Ireland.

We conclude our recap of the most significant stories of 2018 for UK solar, remembering what happened throughout October, November and December. Energy minister Claire Perry, predictably, features heavily.