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Solar Media analyst Josh Cornes explores how the most recent Contracts for Difference auction will affect the UK solar industry.

In this blog, James Thornton, wholesale market services senior analyst at EDF UK, delves into battery energy storage system optimisation.

Solar and infrastructure investor NextPower UK ESG (NPUK) revealed on Friday (7 October) that it has signed one of the UK’s largest solar sleeved PV power purchase agreements (PPAs) with utility Anglian Water Services covering the 75MW Llanwern solar PV power plant in Wales.

TagEnergy has energised what it claims is the UK’s largest transmission-connected BESS: the 100MW/200MWh Lakeside project in North Yorkshire.

Solar and energy storage company Anesco has been granted the green light to develop a 48MW solar PV power plant in Coven, Staffordshire.

A 200MW battery energy storage system (BESS) in Bathgate, Scotland, has passed through West Lothian Council’s executive committee with no objections.

Energy developer Balance Power has today (24 September) secured planning approval for a 99MW/99MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Iron Acton, south Gloucestershire.

A new report from climate and energy think tank Ember has revealed that globally, 593GW of solar capacity will likely be installed by the end of this year.

A new report by energy service provider Joulen, formerly the Electric Storage Company, suggests 0.1% of UK businesses could provide the equivalent power of both Hinkley Point C and 130 grid-scale battery sites by installing battery energy storage.

YLEM Energy offshoot Root-Power, which launched earlier this year, has received planning permission for a 12MW/24MWh battery energy storage site in Caterham, Surrey.