Storage

The Solar Trade Association (STA) has strengthened its policy development team as it moves to ready itself for the “pivotal moment” of a new government and the looming Brexit negotiations.

British Solar Renewables (BSR) has said its move to a new headquarters reflects its growing confidence in the UK’s renewables and storage sectors.

E.On will today look to kick its UK-facing solar-plus-storage division into gear by launching a public awareness and advertising campaign starring UK pop band Gorillaz.

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Ecotricity has announced plans for a pilot storage project near its head office in Stroud in the company’s first move into utility scale storage.

E.On chief executive Johannes Teyssen has backed the firm’s nascent solar-plus-battery business to grab market share in the UK and fired a salvo at the Conservative party’s proposed energy price cap.

Limejump has added Britain’s largest battery storage system to its aggregation assets after winning a contract from UK Power Networks (UKPN) to take on the commercial operations of the Leighton Buzzard battery.

Western Power Distribution (WPD) has launched a consultation seeking views on the potential growth of energy storage on its distribution network after receiving an ‘unprecedented’ 8GW of applications in the last 18 months.

The Solar Trade Association (STA) will seek to work with the next government to almost double the UK’s solar capacity by 2022 with an overall aim to reach the Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC) goal of 40GW of solar by 2030.

Renewables distributor CCL Energy has set its sights on significant turnover growth after acquiring Firefly Solar Generators.