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'Strong growth dynamics': UK solar industry adds 500MW in 2020 as investment in subsidy-free projects heat up
'Strong growth dynamics': UK solar industry adds 500MW in 2020 as investment in subsidy-free projects heat up

Deployment outstrips government estimates by hundreds of megawatts, as plummeting costs see wave of new projects emerge

  • Solar
  • 25 January 2021
Aker Horizons acquires majority stake in Mainstream Renewable Power in €1bn equity deal
Aker Horizons acquires majority stake in Mainstream Renewable Power in €1bn equity deal

Norwegian investor snaps up 75 per cent stake in wind and solar developer providing boost for plans to establish global renewable energy major

  • Wind
  • 20 January 2021
Solar Trade Association rebrands as Solar Energy UK
Solar Trade Association rebrands as Solar Energy UK

Revamped trade body aims to 'lead the solar and energy storage industries into a brighter subsidy-free era'

  • Solar
  • 19 January 2021
Total to snap up stake in Indian solar giant Adani Green Energy
Total to snap up stake in Indian solar giant Adani Green Energy

Announcement of deal to acquire 20 per cent stake in world's largest solar developer comes just days after oil giant quits American Petroleum Institute over climate policy differences

  • Solar
  • 18 January 2021
Clean power drives Britain's grid to record low CO2 intensity in 2020
Clean power drives Britain's grid to record low CO2 intensity in 2020

National Grid ESO data for 2020 confirms raft of new records for wind and solar generation, as well as longest coal-free run since the Industrial Revolution

  • Energy
  • 12 January 2021
Everything you need to know about the UK's landmark Energy White Paper
Everything you need to know about the UK's landmark Energy White Paper

After several delays spanning at least a year, the government has finally unveiled vision for a future net zero energy system - here are the eight things you need to know about the long-awaited Energy White Paper

  • Politics
  • 14 December 2020
Energy White Paper: The green economy reacts
Energy White Paper: The green economy reacts

'Business stands ready to deliver the investment and innovation needed to turn ambition into reality, and the proposals outlined in the Energy White Paper will give firms further confidence to deliver new infrastructure'

  • Policy
  • 14 December 2020
IEA: Surge in clean energy capacity to drive five per cent drop in power sector emissions in 2020
IEA: Surge in clean energy capacity to drive five per cent drop in power sector emissions in 2020

International Energy Agency's latest electricity markets update confrms major drop in emissions in 2020, but warns that coal and gas-fired generation will bounce back next year

  • Energy
  • 14 December 2020
BritishVolt picks site of Blyth Power Station for UK's first 'gigafactory'
BritishVolt picks site of Blyth Power Station for UK's first 'gigafactory'

£2.6bn scheme represents largest industrial investment England’s North East in more than three decades and will generate 8,000 local jobs, BritishVolt said.

  • Automotive
  • 11 December 2020
Amazon stakes claim as 'world's largest' corporate clean power buyer with 3.4GW blitz
Amazon stakes claim as 'world's largest' corporate clean power buyer with 3.4GW blitz

Tech giant strikes mammoth package of wind and solar offtake deals including from 129MW South Lanarkshire wind project under development in Scotland

  • Energy
  • 10 December 2020
BloombergNEF: Clean energy investment in emerging economies sputters during Covid-19 following record year
BloombergNEF: Clean energy investment in emerging economies sputters during Covid-19 following record year

Despite securing a record $432bn of foreign investment in 2019, clean energy projects in emerging markets have suffered a ‘rough 2020’ as investors’ turned to less risky markets, analyst warns

  • Energy
  • 10 December 2020
What happened to onshore wind and solar in the PM's Ten Point Plan?
What happened to onshore wind and solar in the PM's Ten Point Plan?

The government should introduce dedicated annual auctions for onshore wind and solar that can boost their deployment, argues RSPB's Seb Berry

  • Energy
  • 26 November 2020
How the UK climbed back into the top five most attractive renewables markets
How the UK climbed back into the top five most attractive renewables markets

EY's annual league table sees UK climb two places after wave of supportive policy measures for wind and solar in 2020

  • Wind
  • 25 November 2020
Government sets sights on securing 12GW of renewable power from next contract auction
Government sets sights on securing 12GW of renewable power from next contract auction

Plans to hold fourth Contracts for Difference auction for range of different renewables technologies confirmed by government for late 2021

  • Energy
  • 24 November 2020
Solar-powered railway scheme steams ahead with £2.5m government grant
Solar-powered railway scheme steams ahead with £2.5m government grant

Riding Sunbeams project aims to shuttle power from a community solar plant to the London to Eastbourne railway line

  • Rail
  • 23 November 2020
City of London announces £40m solar power purchase deal in UK first
City of London announces £40m solar power purchase deal in UK first

The 15-year deal will see City of London Corporation help fund a 49MW solar farm in Dorset to help power the UK capital's financial district

  • Solar
  • 19 November 2020
Space: The final frontier for renewables?
Space: The final frontier for renewables?

UK government commissions research into viability of space-based solar power systems

  • Technology
  • 17 November 2020
Tesco and Low Carbon to build three new solar farms in UK by 2021
Tesco and Low Carbon to build three new solar farms in UK by 2021

New agreement is part of Tesco's commitment to use 100 per cent renewable electricity by 2030, and is set to save 30,308 tonnes of CO2 emissions a year

  • Energy
  • 13 November 2020
'All about the sun': Solar plant powers up at Sol brewery
'All about the sun': Solar plant powers up at Sol brewery

Inauguration of solar plant at Sol brewery in Netherlands will help parent company Heineken reach goal of achieving 70 per cent renewable energy across its production facilities

  • Solar
  • 04 November 2020
Statkraft to snap up Solarcentury in £117m deal
Statkraft to snap up Solarcentury in £117m deal

Energy giant inks agreement to acquire pioneering solar developer, securing 6GW clean energy pipeline in bid to become 'one of the world’s leading renewable energy companies'

  • Solar
  • 02 November 2020
Greencoat Capital hits 1GW as it snaps up solar portfolio from Allianz Global Investors
Greencoat Capital hits 1GW as it snaps up solar portfolio from Allianz Global Investors

Purchase of three operational solar plants brings total value of solar assets in asset manager's Greencoat Solar II fund to £2bn

  • Solar
  • 02 November 2020
Solar boost as Ecotricity inks 15-year green power purchase deal
Solar boost as Ecotricity inks 15-year green power purchase deal

Offtake agreement will see green energy provider purchase renewable obligation certificates from solar projects backed by asset manager Armstrong Capital

  • Solar
  • 21 October 2020
'Unstoppable momentum': Business-backed report concludes Paris-aligned power sector can be delivered
'Unstoppable momentum': Business-backed report concludes Paris-aligned power sector can be delivered

'S curve' deployment suggest goals of Paris Agreement can be achieved, but only if policy framework 'encourages, sustains, and extends' the deployment of clean technologies, according to researchers from UCL's Institute for Sustainable Resources

  • Energy
  • 12 October 2020
Octopus Energy toasts US expansion with acquisition of startup Evolve Energy
Octopus Energy toasts US expansion with acquisition of startup Evolve Energy

Deal represents major milestone for the rapidly-growing UK energy technology firm's international expansion plans

  • Energy
  • 29 September 2020
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