Renewable energy
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Elements Green has acquired the 300MW/600MWh Newarthill battery energy storage project near Motherwell, adding a transmission-connected Scottish asset with planning consent and an adjacent 275kV substation connection.
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UK solar installations passed two million at the end of March 2026, with total capacity reaching 22.1GW as rooftop demand and large-scale projects drove the market to a new deployment milestone.
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Offshore Energies UK says Britain must deliver around 5GW of offshore wind each year to meet clean power targets, warning that current deployment rates would leave capacity well short of the 2030 goal.
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Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners has launched Perigus Energy after completing its acquisition of Ørsted’s European onshore wind, solar, and battery storage business.
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Qualitas Energy has secured permits for 59MW of German onshore wind capacity, including a repowering project in Lower Saxony and a new wind farm in Rhineland-Palatinate.
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Sungrow’s iSolarCloud platform has partnered with Frank Energie to aggregate residential PV and storage assets across the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
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Goldbeck Solar has started construction on two German battery storage projects totalling 100 MW / 300 MWh, with end-to-end delivery including system design, equipment supply, execution, 110 kV grid connection, and long-term servicing.
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Power Electronics has reached 11 GW AC of installed capacity in the UK, spanning solar and battery storage inverter systems as demand grows for resilient power conversion across renewables, storage, and data centre applications.
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The L&G NTR Clean Power Fund has acquired the ready-to-build Fair Oaks project in Nottinghamshire, combining 75.4MWp of solar PV with a 49.9MW / 99.8MWh battery system.
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ScottishPower Renewables and Masdar have installed the first turbine at East Anglia THREE, using 115-metre blades manufactured at Siemens Gamesa’s Hull factory.