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The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has claimed it wants a diverse energy market involving solar, but would repeal the Climate Change Act claiming it to have “no basis in science”.

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.

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.

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.

Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) is now sourcing all the power needed for its UK facilities from renewables, helped by a newly built solar farm.

Octopus Investments has bolstered its funds with a £300 million fund raising which it says will be used to pursue operational renewable assets in the UK.

Vortex, the renewable energy platform of EFG Hermes’ private equity arm, has finally closed its purchase solar assets from SunEdison yieldco TerraForm Power.

There are now less than three weeks left to nominate your projects for this year’s Solar Power Portal Awards.

At last month’s Managing European Solar Assets conference, hosted in London by Solar Power Portal’s publisher Solar Media, Brexit was a topic that routinely came up in conversation.

ET Energy has announced it successfully built six solar farms totalling 26MWp in the UK prior to the closure of the Renewables Obligation on behalf of funds managed by Octopus Energy Investments.