Brighton co-op secures EU cash for SMEs’ solar arrays
Whether "got done" already or only just beginning, the little matter of Brexit has not stopped a far-sighted energy co-operative from offering EU-sourced grants...
Construction firm Multiplex to build own UK solar farm for dedicated PPA
International green building contractor Multiplex today pledged itself to the building of a new 15 MWp UK solar farm, as part of its plan...
Investors’ sun splash for solar, as Octopus, Atrato and NESF flare big cash
Amid finally nippy autumnal weather, solar electricity in the UK today basked under the cool, clear skies of a continuing investment boom.
As UK solar...
Energy activists supply premium clothing brand
Energy Garden, a network of community energy projects in London, from next month will supply renewable electricity to two outlets of Patagonia, the upmarket...
Electrifying performance: Berlin’s Olympic Stadium to get solar PV
The Olympic athletics track on which legendary sprinter Jesse Owens defied Nazi racism in 1936 is soon to be further enhanced, being overlooked with...
Shell’s 2021 profits quadruple
As 25 million British consumers awaited news this morning of a new Ofgem-sanctioned price cap set push energy bills up an eye-watering 50%, fossil...
“To the roofs, and beyond!” Lockdowns can’t stop record 2021 for UK solar
Solar bosses are today hailing 2021 as another record-busting twelve months for clean PV-generated power. Figures just released prove gigawatts of the speedily deployed...
Brighton Energy Co-op advertises commercial roof projects seeking PV installers’ bids
One of Britain’s longest established community-accountable energy co-operatives has started to advertise projects seeking competitive bids from solar installers.
Brighton Energy Cooperative is advertising upcoming...
Fund promoting co-ops’ power secures £31 million debt rollover from big lender
An investment body promoting community ownership of solar farms has secured refinancing of its assets worth £31 million.
Community Owned Renewable Energy Partners (CORE) is...
“Knowing storage, knowing you, a-Ha!” North Norfolk to host digital solution
The fund is set to plug 6MW/12 MWh of storage into one of its 91 UK solar parks, this one deep in the heritage...
Mitie buys installer Custom Solar for £12.4 million
Facilities and buildings management leader Mitie has bought PV installers Custom Solar, it told investors today.
The fee for the company based in Chesterfield, Derbyshire,...
Sporty! Gridserve pit-stops to take on £200 million from M&G’s Infracapital
Solar-power-to-electric-wheels future-seekers Gridserve have secured an initial £200m equity stake from investment giant M&G’s infrastructure equity participant Infracapital.
For the five-year old e-charging and EV...
“Sun more, up top!” Double-decker bus kit takes biscuit
It always happens. You wait ages for a story about electric buses, and then three come along, all at once.
On the heels of Ulster-based...
More solar “clearly in Treasury’s interest”, say lobbyists urging price reforms
Liz Truss’ new steps to curb soaring energy prices mean expanding Britain’s installed base of solar generation makes more sense than ever, trade body...
London’s energy co-ops surge, in quest of Mayor’s 1 GWp of solar by 2030
Influential volunteer-led co-operatives are punching above their weight in bringing citizen-controlled renewable power, overwhelmingly solar PV, to Britain's capital city, a conference hosted online...
Sunak heartens England’s pro-wind heartlands, Coffey backs 3b land
Frictions within prime minister Rishi Sunak’s increasingly internal fragile coalition of in-office Conservatives have brought new comfort this week to developers of land-based green...
VPP champ Octopus Maxes out, permits firms to spread single-site clean generation UK-wide
Green-exclusive generator Octopus Energy, Britain’s third biggest supplier, is enabling multi-site companies who self-generate their renewable power to spread it between sites, even nationwide.
The...
“Once more unto the Breach”: Iceland plugs into Octopus’s Cambs solar farm
Frozen food chain Iceland Foods is the latest High Street brand to sign a PPA (- power purchase agreement -) with a power retailer...
Konnichiwa, Kraken ! ‘Ows tha doin‘, Coventry?
Staff at fast-growing Octopus Energy were today celebrating two business successes, saluting separately the mystical Orient and the somewhat less mystical West Midlands of...