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Gilkes Energy has announced that it has been awarded planning consent for its Earba Pumped Storage Hydro (PSH) scheme.

On 1 April, between 12:30 and 13:00, Great Britain secured a new maximum solar generation record of 12.2GW.

Green Nation has released updated plans for its Whitestone Solar Farm showing a reduction of the area that will be covered by solar PV panels.

Developer Kona Energy has secured a circa £40 million capacity market contract for its 228MW/456MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in East Lothian, Scotland.

Two solar developments, awarded contracts in Ireland’s second Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS) in 2022, have reached new milestones, with one entering construction and another newly operational.

Invinity Energy Systems has reached an agreement to develop a 20.7MWh flow battery system, the UK’s largest.

Electricity generated by renewable technologies increased by 6.5% in 2024, accounting for a 50.8% of the UK’s electricity generation.

The Planning Inspectorate has accepted two utility-scale solar PV plants for examination: German power company RWE’s 320MW Peartree Hill Solar Farm in the East Riding of Yorkshire and PS Renewables and Ørsted’s 740MW One Earth Solar Farm in Nottinghamshire.

The latest data from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) have revealed that the UK now has a total of 18GW of operational solar PV capacity installed.

Schroders Greencoat, the renewables manager arm of Schroders Capital, has surpassed 2GW of operational ground-mount solar capacity in the UK.