It all stacks up: Lego goes 100% renewable
Danish plastic building blocks manufacturer Lego has achieved its goal of being 100% renewable three years early thanks to concerted efforts to rely on solar and wind power at its facilities worldwide.
Solar Trade Association launches ‘Manifesto’ for UK solar
The UK trade body today launched its ‘Great British Solar Manifesto’, in a pre-election appeal to MPs outlining the contribution solar can make to the country over the next Parliament, if the right policy framework is put in place to fairly support market developments.
Atomic scale design could pave the way to more persistent solar cells, study says
Researchers from ICL claim to have discovered the cause for the rapid decrease in performance of perovskites. Adding iodide ions may help improve the stability of solar cells.
TerraForm completes the sale of 365 MW of UK solar assets
With the sale the yieldco has almost completely divested from the United Kingdom, as its acquisition by Brookfield grinds forward.
Brexit: Chatham House spells out complexities of UK’s energy relationship with EU
Unpicking the energy ties that bind the U.K. and European Union will prove a monumental task, says Chatham House, requiring immediate insight into which relationships can be salvaged and how a new level of integration can be reached.
ET Energy builds 26 MW of solar across the UK
The projects were commissioned on behalf of clean energy investment group Octopus Energy Investments and are eligible for a 1.2 ROC subsidy.
UK adds 111 MW of solar in Q1 2017
Great Britain installed 111 MW of new PV systems in the first three months of this year, according to provisional BEIS statistics. The country’s cumulative capacity now surpasses 11.85 GW.
UK energy storage: government in no hurry
A seminar on the outlook for the U.K.’s energy storage market that took place this week in London highlighted the vibrant activity taking place in the sector, but was unable to answer when or if government can come up with a meaningful policy.
STA calls on UK Government to remove tax barriers to solar
Data released this week by Britain’s Solar Trade Association shows that rooftop deployments across the country plummeted in the first quarter of 2017, after a hike in the business rates for small solar installations took effect earlier in the year.
Residential battery firm Moixa receives equity investment from Japan’s TEPCO
The developer of home batteries has attracted half a million pounds’ worth of equity investment from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings to aid its market expansion.
