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In 2019, Bently Motors installed a solar car park at its headquarters in Crewe. The site’s 10,000 solar panels have a capacity of 2.7MW and cover an area of 16,426m². Image: Flexisolar.

The ‘untapped power’ of solar carports for UK businesses

February 11, 2025
Installing solar carports in more than half a million suitable parking spaces owned by UK businesses could generate 1.57GW of solar energy.
A 3D render of the newly consented BESS site in the Scottish Highlands. Image: Root-Power.

Root-Power 34MW Scottish Highlands BESS greenlit

February 10, 2025
Root-Power has received planning permission for a 34MW/68MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) to be constructed in the Scottish Highlands.
Trainees on the ReStart for Veterans course by RePower Ukraine. Image: RePower Ukraine.

How RePower Ukraine is keeping the lights on

February 5, 2025
Renewable energy generation has been maintaining power supply in Ukraine through the ongoing Russian invasion.
Absolar, which specialises in commercial solar installation, designed and fitted the panels around 700 skylights on the warehouse roof. Image: Absolar.

Private wire 520kWp solar installation completed on distribution warehouse roof

February 4, 2025
Southampton-based Absolar has completed the installation of a 520kWp rooftop solar array on a Draper Tools warehouse in North Baddesly, Hampshire.
It has been suggested that to meet the UK’s net zero goals, solar PV would take up 0.29% of available land (and 0.51% of all available agricultural land). Image: Pexels.

Government launches land use framework to protect high quality farmland, support clean energy ambitions

February 3, 2025
The UK government has opened consultation on a land use framework that could make it less likely “high quality farmland” is lost to renewable energy projects.
Quinbrook says it will use its experience from the Cleve Hill project in overseeing construction of Mallard Pass, which is due to begin in 2026. Image: Wikimedia Commons.

Quinbrook to take on 350MW Mallard Pass solar NSIP

February 3, 2025
Global investment manager Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has announced its acquisition of the 350MW Mallard Pass solar PV project.
About 10% of Dunton’s total annual electricity demand (which is 55,000MWh, according to the carmaker) will be met by the solar PV array. Image: Ford.

Ford installs solar PV at manufacturing hub in Dunton

January 31, 2025
Ford Motor Company’s UK headquarters has commissioned a 5.2MWp solar PV array that it says could fuel a Ford E-Transit for 14 million miles.
The chancellor of the exchequer set out her vision for the UK’s economic growth, calling net zero the “industrial opportunity of the 21st Century”. Image: Lauren Hurley / No. 10 Downing Street via Flickr.

Government’s National Wealth Fund invests in Cornish mining

January 31, 2025
The government-backed National Wealth Fund will invest in Cornish Metals, which could mine critical minerals needed for solar panel production.
A drone shot of the Thorpe Marsh site. Image: Fidra Energy.

Doncaster Council approves Fidra Energy’s 1.4GW Thorpe Marsh BESS

January 30, 2025
Edinburgh-headquartered Fidra Energy has received planning consent for its first battery storage site at Thorpe Marsh, Yorkshire.
Investors in the pre-seed funding round included founder and CEO of energy storage developer Penso Power, Richard Thwaites. Image: GRYD Energy.

GRYD Energy raises £1 million funding for solar subscription expansion

January 28, 2025
GRYD Energy, the solar technology start up that delivered the UK’s “first true” solar subscription, has raised £1 million to fund its national expansion.

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