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Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has completed construction and started commercial operations of the 373MW Cleve Hill Solar Park, now the largest operational in the UK.

The latest figures from the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) show that solar capacity has risen by 8.1% year on year.

EDF Renewables UK has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Transport for London (TfL) to power London’s Tube.

The UK and Ireland were the two countries to sign the highest number of renewable energy  power purchase agreements (PPAs) in May, according to Swiss consultancy Pexapark.

Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT) has agreed to conditionally acquire a 32.6MW solar site in Ireland for approximately €27 million (£23.13 million).

Energy secretary Ed Miliband has granted a development consent order (DCO) for a solar and storage project put forward by BayWa.r.e.

Watch the webinar, Making large scale solar worth it: Delivering the UK’s first solar NSIP, with Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners’ Rosalind Maxwell Smith and Josh Cornes of Solar Media Market Research, hosted by Solar Power Portal.

Island Green Power has opened the second round of community consultation for the East Pye Solar project, a proposed 500MW solar PV power plant with a co-located battery energy storage system (BESS).

On 1-2 July, the UK Solar Summit 2025 will bring together leading developers, investors and policymakers to explore solar’s evolving role in the UK energy mix. 

Renewable energy developer RES has submitted a planning application to the Scottish government’s Energy Consents Unit (ECU) for a 150MW BESS.