Root-Power lands planning consent for 30MW BESS
Battery energy storage system (BESS) developer Root-Power has been granted planning permission for a 30MW/60MWh BESS in Greater Manchester.
Drax lodges £200 million cash offer for Harmony Energy Income Trust
Drax has outbid Foresight Group LLP to acquire the share capital of the publicly-listed Harmony Energy Income Trust (HEIT) for £200 million.
UKPN and NESO launch whole-system streamlining service for distributed energy
A new service to streamline energy market access and enable faster grid connection for distributed energy assets has launched.
Pulse Clean Energy activates 42MW West Manchester BESS
Pulse Clean Energy announced that it has activated a 42MW/100MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Cheshire.
Rapid 14GW solar manufacturing expansion only possible with AI, says Goldi Solar founder
Goldi Solar tells PV Tech Premium that plans to scale up operations from 3GW to 14GW would not have been possible without using AI.
Solar Energy UK: ‘Clear shift’ towards support for solar
New research commissioned by Solar Energy UK has shown that 77% of the UK public supports solar development in their local area.
British Solar Renewables acquires Little Crow solar-plus-storage NSIP
British Solar Renewables (BSR) has announced that it has acquired the Little Crow solar and storage project from INRG.
Big week for BESS in UK with 2.5GW of CM wins and £1 billion in project financings
Some 2.5GW of BESS projects in the UK have won contracts across the T-1 and T-4 capacity markets (CM), announced in a week which also saw project financings worth a combined c.£1 billion, including from Zenobē, Constantine and Quinbrook.
Zenobē lands financing for 400MW Eccles project
Battery energy storage system (BESS) firm Zenobē has announced that it has successfully financed its Eccles BESS project in Scotland, in one of the biggest finance rounds in European history.
UK and China sign clean energy Memorandum of Understanding
On 17 March, Wang Hongzhi, administrator of China’s National Energy Administration, and Ed Miliband, the UK secretary of state for energy security and net zero, co-chaired the 8th China-UK Energy Dialogue in Beijing.
