Battery storage has dominated the outcome of the National Grid’s 200MW Enhanced Frequency Response (EFR) tender, with the technology to be used for balancing services at grid scale for the first time in the UK.
Lauren Cook, market analyst at Solar Media, looks at the types of developers vying for position in the nascent solar market of Ireland ahead of the government’s policy framework expected in the coming months.
Independent consultant and public sector specialist Stephen Cirell discusses what Forest heath’s purchase of Toggan Solar Farm could mean for public sector solar.
Russian gas giant Gazprom has entered into a 15-year contract with Canadian Solar which will see it purchase all electricity generated from its existing UK portfolio.
A think tank that includes senior Conservative figures among its members has called for the government to call time on the Hinkley C nuclear power plant.
The UK government should make clear its views on a subsidy-free market stabilisation model for technologies left out of the Contracts for Difference scheme, according to the latest select committee report to criticise the government’s handling of the renewables industry.
The sale of three UK solar farms is underway after European Solar Farms, a division of European Energy, signed a conditional deal with the subsidiary of a Danish pension provider.
ReneSola has announced the sale of four operational solar farms in the UK totalling 20MW to the investor and fund manager Equitix for its fourth core infrastructure fund.
The Irish government is facing fresh calls for clarity over a delayed solar energy subsidy scheme from the Irish Farmer’s Association (IFA), which claims thousands of acres of land are under contracts from developers.
