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Northumberland County Council has opened a new solar car port array set to save between £100,000 and £150,000 in energy costs.

If you look online for a list of the biggest solar sites in the UK, you will find a lot of basic and out of date information. This list is changing frequently as big new solar sites are deployed in the UK, and the sites in this list are going to be dwarfed by much larger ones in the years to come.

Construction analysts Barbour ABI’s research team have found that warehouses hold huge untapped potential to create up to 25GWp of new rooftop solar capacity.

Trade body Solar Energy UK has welcomed the report by Electricity Grid Commissioner Nick Winser recommending ways to accelerate grid infrastructure build time.

Gore Street Energy Storage Fund (GSF) has selected EDF as its trading and optimisation partner for a new 80MW battery energy storage system (BESS).

To bolster the UK’s renewable generation capacity, the UK Government has today (3 August) unveiled a £22 million increase in funding for the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme, which will include solar.

Development company BSR Energy has launched a challenge against the Welsh Minister after being refused planning consent for a 75MW solar farm.

Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT) will invest up to £2 million to set up and fund a new solar and battery storage development business.

Electricity Storage Network (ESN) has released an open letter to National Grid ESO highlighting concerns over the Balancing Mechanism (BM) which has seen an average skip rate of 80% for batteries between November 2022 and May 2023.

Carlton Power, an energy infrastructure development company, has gained planning consent for a 2,080MWh battery energy storage scheme (BESS).