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The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has defended the government’s record of managing the Levy Control Framework (LCF) and said it expects to publish its eagerly anticipated carbon plan in February next year.

Cuts to renewables subsidies had to be enacted last year after the government failed in several areas of its administration of the Levy Control Framework (LCF), a parliamentary report has found.

The Energy and Climate Change select committee (ECC) has used its final report to add to growing pressure on government to address the regulatory barriers holding back greater deployment of storage technologies.

Swindon Borough Council (SBC) is preparing to launch a second solar bond following the success of its first local authority led investment offer earlier this year, which closed a month early after raising almost £2 million.

London’s solar strategy will be published in spring 2017 as part of a wider environmental policy consultation to be released under the new deputy mayor for energy and environment, Shirley Rodrigues.

With over 30 companies exhibiting battery products or espousing the technology to the thousands of visitors in attendance, storage was always going to play a major role at last week’s SEUK | Clean Energy Live exhibition. David Pratt summarises the view from the show floor with regards the UK’s burgeoning storage market.

Havering London Borough Council has submitted plans to build its own solar farms in the latest example of wider adoption of solar developments by local authorities and the first to take up the technology on a large scale in London.

Despite regulatory ambiguities, the general consensus from industry stakeholders at this year’s Solar Energy UK | Clean Energy Live exhibition is that Africa’s solar sector is ripe for UK entrants, posing a significant opportunity that should not be missed.

A new report has estimated that when combined with greater integration of batteries, the intermittency of solar generation could provide a net benefit to the grid, removing one of the key criticisms of wider adoption of the technology.

Former shadow energy minister Clive Lewis has returned to the energy policy landscape after being appointed shadow secretary for business, energy and industrial strategy (BEIS) following Jeremy Corbyn’s reshuffle over the weekend.