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Foresight Solar Fund has agreed to purchase 11 solar farms with combined capacity of more than 80MW for a total sum of £34 million.
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The contribution of renewables to electricity generation hit a new record peak in the second quarter of this year as solar power picked up the slack resulting from the summer "wind drought", new official statistics show.
In his keynote speech at the Labour annual conference today (26 September), the opposition leader said the investment required to deliver the party’s goal to achieve a 60 per cent cut in emissions by 2030 will create more than 400,000 skilled jobs.
Labour has pledged to cut emissions to "net zero" by 2050 with new targets to dramatically increase the amount of wind power generation and eliminate fuel poverty.
Davenport, who was awarded an OBE for services to renewables in 2013, founded Good Energy in 1999. She has since been appointed to the board of the Natural Environment Research Council and most recently to the board of Innovate UK.
The former vice-president of Tesla EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), Ben Hill, has been appointed commercial and technical adviser of energy storage specialists, Solo Energy.
The system operator said the move to close to real-time procurement will create new opportunities for wind and solar generators that cannot forecast their availability with sufficient certainty to participate in the existing monthly tenders.
Four electricity network companies have joined forces to replace the loss of mains protection systems for 800MW of distributed generation in the South of England.
Excluding nuclear from the energy mix dramatically increases the cost of decarbonising the power system, according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The European Commission has dropped tariffs on solar panels imported from China after ruling that the benefits of lower prices to consumers and installers would outweigh any harm to manufacturers in the EU.
The solar sector will see widespread job losses and company closures if the government proceeds with plans to axe the feed-in tariff (FIT) without a replacement, a new survey has indicated.
Energy minister Claire Perry has been urged to maintain the mechanism that enables households to get paid for surplus electricity generated by their solar panels.
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has predicted the North of Scotland could be set for an explosion in renewables in a new report setting out a range of credible scenarios for the future of energy in the area.
Green energy tariffs are among the cheapest on the market but common misconceptions about them still remain, uSwitch.com has found.
The renewable energy company has teamed up with the blockchain platform Energi Mine whose Energi tokens can be put towards energy bills, used to claim discounts on electric vehicle charging or exchanged for cash.
