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                 Octopus Energy has teamed up with UK Power Networks to offer households free energy when there is excess renewable power. Participating customers will get free electricity when there is surplus electricity on the local grid from abundant renewables. Based on UK Power…

                   Firma Energy and ib vogt UK have teamed up to develop the 150MW Dean Moor solar project in West Cumbria, England. Proposals for the scheme, progressed under the banner Firma Vogt Solar, include an additional 100MW battery energy storage system. Scoping…

                 The UK and Scottish governments must explain to the public why electricity network expansion is needed, industry body Scottish Renewables has said in a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and First Minister Humza Yousaf. In last week’s independent report on accelerating…

                 The UK government has launched a £10m fund to help urban and rural communities develop local renewable energy projects. The Community Energy Fund will open to applications in the early autumn and the money will help to kickstart developments including small-scale wind…

                 The UK government’s new Community Energy Fund has come under fire from Community Energy Scotland (CES), with the body urging London to rethink the decision. The £10m renewables fund, which is only available in England, was announced by Whitehall as an alternative…

                 Cambridge Power has secured planning permission for a 60MW battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Yorkshire, England. Planning approval was granted by Leeds City Council under delegated powers. The Redcote Lane project is the developer’s tenth consecutive BESS project to secure…

                 Specialists at DTEK Renewables have restored the Niko Solar power plant in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine. This is DTEK Renewables’ first such external project. It said 90% of the generating equipment of the Niko Solar SPP, which has capacity of 5.7MW,…

                 Italian renewable energy developer GreenGo has secured equity bridge financing of up to €15m from Eiffel Essentiel, the private equity fund of Eiffel Investment Group.                The financing will be used to develop a 40MW portfolio…

                 Gore Street Energy Storage Fund has selected EDF to optimise a new 80MW battery asset in Milton Keynes in England. The energisation process for the Stony battery energy storage system (BESS) began on 31 July 2023. Deployment of this asset is part…

                 Voltalia has been selected by Power Capital Renewable Energy, an independent power producer based in Ireland, to build, operate and maintain four solar projects in the south-east of the country with a total capacity of 230MW. Lysaghtstown in County Cork will have…