Novotel London West, London, UK
Worthing-based Sopoco installed five 229kWh Sungrow Power Stack units at the facility, which it claims is the “UK’s largest power stack battery installation to date”.
Since the share offer was opened in March, 200 investors have paid in £440,000 to install the BESS at Ray Valley Solar.
“Without critical minerals, and copper in particular, there is no energy transition,” stresses Joel Watson, head of geopolitical strategy, international critical minerals team at the UK Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office.
‘I think the market has focused on the administrative queue, and I don’t think it understands that the problem is now going to be the physical and operational implementation of that queue,’ our source said.
Solar Power Portal spoke to Giles Wilkes about how the government’s Industrial Strategy will play a role in its Clean Power mission, ahead of the Clean Power 2030 Summit.
Solar Power Portal spoke to Daniel Levene, director and co-founder of Two Blues Solar about the barriers to UK rooftop solar deployment ahead of the Clean Power 2030 Summit in London on 30 June – 1 July.
While the UK government’s long-duration energy storage (LDES) cap-and-floor scheme is a sound approach, there is a lively discussion around how much to procure in the first Window.
At the time of record generation on 7 April, solar generation met 35% of Great Britain’s electricity consumption.
According to Miliband, “there can be no energy security while we are so dependent on fossil fuels.”
Marginal pricing models used in Great Britain mean that regardless of renewable penetration, cost is almost always set by gas.
