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Gresham House has agreed a deal to acquire fellow investment fund manager FIM Services for £25 million.

The UK has climbed back up to seventh in EY’s Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI), its highest position since cuts to renewable subsidies sent its ranking tumbling.

Independent connections provider g2 Energy has completed the grid connection works on a new 29MW battery storage facility in Kent, taking its UK battery storage works past the 100MW mark.

Northumbrian Water has turned to Lightsource BP for the development of 10 ground-mount solar farms to help power its operations.

Leicestershire County Council is taking forward plans to finance and construct its own 10MW solar farm, which it hopes will generate £720,000 per year once completed while mitigating the council’s emissions by over 100%.

The number of employment opportunities for solar technicians in the UK have slumped by nearly 80% in three years, according to research from employment website Indeed.

There are now less than six weeks left to nominate your projects for the Solar Power Portal and Energy-Storage.News Awards 2018.

Foresight Solar Fund has announced the addition of five new solar parks to its portfolio, totalling 53.3MW in capacity.

Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF) has added a trio of new UK-based operational assets to its portfolio.

Wirsol Energy has taken a step closer to its 150MWp subsidy-free development plans after picking up the project rights to 47MWp of solar across two large-scale projects in Lincolnshire.