UK renewables auction to exclude Gate 1 projects, AR8 timeline published
The allocation framework for AR8 sets new rules that this and future CfD auctions will follow.
Building a future-ready grid: National Grid on AI, data centres and network innovation
National Grid’s head of network architecture & innovation, David Adkins, spoke to Solar Power Portal ahead of the CP2030 Summit about how the network is planning for the increased demand from AI and digitalisation.
Lightsource bp secures planning approval at 57MW solar-plus-storage project in Wales
The company selected the site due to its proximity to a point of connection with the grid at the Legacy Substation.
Drax buys Bluefield Solar Income Fund in £548 million deal
Drax will take on the entire issued share value of Bluefield Solar Income Fund.
‘UK’s largest’ power stack battery energy storage installed to support 24-hour industrial operations
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”.
Community-owned BESS already 80% funded by the public
Since the share offer was opened in March, 200 investors have paid in £440,000 to install the BESS at Ray Valley Solar.
UK’s Clean Power 2030 mission hinges on global critical minerals supply chain
“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.
Grid connection challenge will get worse before it gets better, UK operator says
‘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.
UK government’s Clean Power 2030 mission is ‘a great opportunity, but also a great challenge’
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.
UK rooftop solar: Insurance, fire safety and PPA challenges risk Clean Power 2030 target
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.
