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Scottish Water goes solar SCOTTISH Water has unveiled its single biggest ever investment in solar energy projects as it seeks to drive down carbon emissions and costs a sites across Scotland. The utility has pledged to spend £9 million in solar projects at assets around the country over the next three years through its Scottish […]

Solar Storage Tesla Motors will unveil a new integrated product involving solar power, battery storage and Tesla charger on 28 October. Elon Musk, chairman and chief executive of Tesla and largest shareholder in both SolarCity and Tesla, once again drew great interest with a Twitter announcement.

Project Eric There’s a better alternative to a massively expensive and controversial new nuclear power programme, and you can see it emerging in a council estate on the edge of Oxford. Local renewable energy combined with local electricity storage in people’s homes offers a cheaper, greener and more people-friendly alternative. Project ERIC, a pilot involving […]

Labour Policy With the launch of an environment and energy manifesto this week, Jeremy Corbyn may have signalled a renewed focus from Labour on energy policy. In the same week that saw Barry Gardner launch a campaign against rising business rates on solar installations, could it be that Corbyn’s Labour is about to bring green […]

Private Wires Push Lightsource has appointed Big Four consultancy Deloitte and real estate giant Cushman & Wakefield to help support the developer’s private wire solar push. Lightsource, the most prolific developer of ground-mounted solar in the UK market, has centred its new deployment strategy around the burgeoning commercial PPA market following an internal restructure earlier […]