finance

Allianz Global Investors has splashed the cash to acquire around 100MW of UK solar from BayWa r.e., in what is the German developer’s largest single transaction to date.

METKA EGN has announced EPC contract wins for 75MW of new UK projects, the largest being a 20MW storage project, as the company restates its commitment to the UK market.

Entries are now open for this year’s Solar Power Portal Awards 2017.

A recap of the biggest news from the last week in UK solar, with developments from Ecotricity, IKEA and Anesco.

John Laing Environmental Assets Group (JLEN) is seeking to raise £25 million by way of an initial placing under a fundraising programme to finance a near term pipeline of solar, wind and biomass projects.

Finlay Colville, head of market research at Solar Media, discusses today’s TerraForm Power deal and takes a look at what it means in broader terms for both the UK market and SunEdison.

The 365MW solar portfolio owned by SunEdison yieldco TerraForm Power has been sold to Vortex, a European renewables investment platform of private equity firm EFG Hermes.

As UK Solar’s build-phase approaches a hibernation, services such as optimisation and O&M are all the rage. This is seemingly not lost on some energy giants who are beginning to position themselves to cater for such demand. Are they set to take more than their fair share of the pie? Liam Stoker discusses.

Construction is set to begin on Swindon Borough Council’s second solar farm to be funded by a unique council solar bond, which raised over £2.4 million from more than 800 investors in just six weeks.

NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) has bolted on a further four under-construction solar farms to its growing asset portfolio.