by Nevs Voss | Aug 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
Image: Lightsource. The UK solar pipeline of large-scale, ground-mount solar farms has grown dramatically during 2019, with 66 new solar farms identified, accounting for 1.8 GW of capacity. This has taken the pipeline of UK large-scale, ground-mounted solar farms to...
by Nevs Voss | Aug 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
Wokingham Borough Council has become the latest to embrace solar, pledging school installs during the next academic year. Solar is to be installed on schools, libraries, leisure centres and other council-owned buildings, supporting Wokingham Borough Council’s goal of...
by Nevs Voss | Aug 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
Image: Chargepoint. The economics of combining solar and other renewables with electric vehicles is becoming so compelling that the oil sector faces a “relentless and irreversible decline”, a new report from BNP Paribas has concluded. The report, dubbed ‘Wells, wires...
by Nevs Voss | Aug 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
RWE is to close its 1.56GW Aberthaw B coal-fired power station in March 2020, taking the UK’s operational coal fleet down to four. RWE cited ‘challenging’ market conditions as making the closure necessary. Those market conditions were also cited as the reason behind...
by Nevs Voss | Aug 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) has launched a consultation on its new certification for battery energy storage systems. The consultation is to last a month, closing to responses on 23 August at 5:00pm. The MCS first announced it was to launch a...