SSE backed Renewco Power sets sights on 4GW renewables portfolio
A new renewables firm with the backing of SSE has been launched with a focus on roll-out of large-scale solar and wind farms across the UK and Europe.
Articles tagged with: Solarcentury
Solar engineers PVcase launch version 2.0 design software
Solar engineering company PVcase has launched the second iteration of its design software.
Statkraft acquires Solarcentury as it ‘ramps up’ solar developer goals
Renewable energy giant Statkraft has acquired UK headquartered Solarcentury for £117.7 million in a bid to accelerate its growth in the solar sector.
The four key requirements for solar CfDs
As the consultation closes for the proposed CfD scheme, Solarcentury's Susannah Wood shares her thoughts on what’s needed to make CfDs work for solar.
Solarcentury predicts renewables to accelerate post-COVID-19 as it posts sterling financial results
Despite short-term challenges caused by COVID-19, solar power's competitive nature could see it accelerate as we move forward, according to Solarcentury.
Q&A: Solarcentury’s Chris Banks on how the UK solar market is changing
Solar Power Portal caught up with Chris Banks, UK business development manager at Solarcentury, about its new 62MW Welsh site, why now was the right time to return to the UK market and the rise of subsidy-free developments.
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Q&A: Solarcentury’s Chris Banks on how COVID-19 is affecting solar
Solar Power Portal recently caught up with Solarcentury UK business development manager Chris Banks, about how the pandemic has affected its operations, the status of key workers in the solar sector and the long term impact.
Budget 2020: ‘Disappointing’ lack of climate focus as solar and storage ignored
Solar is once again absent from the Budget as nuclear fusion and carbon capture technologies receive funding boosts.
Solarcentury plans first UK solar development since 2016
Solarcentury has announced its first UK solar farm development in four years, with 62MW planned for Welsh site.
Solarcentury reports ‘record’ results as earnings soar on international pipeline
Solarcentury has reported “record financial results” for the year ended 31 March 2019 as it casts its eye towards a 5GW, global solar pipeline.
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Q&A: Solarcentury on subsidy-free PV, battery storage and necessary policy
Solar Power Portal speaks to Solarcentury chief executive Frans van den Heuvel and strategy director David Edwards about subsidy-free solar in the UK, battery storage and what advice it might have for a future government.
Solarcentury backing mooted sale to take it to ‘the top tier’
Solarcentury is backing its potential sale to help the company accelerate and establish itself as a major player in the energy transition.
Fresh round of collective solar purchasing schemes planned for September
A fresh round of collective solar purchasing schemes is to launch across the UK this September, this time hoping to incorporate domestic storage.
Solar could provide 20% of UK electricity by 2030, ‘significantly underestimated’ in net zero
Solar’s role in delivering net zero is being vastly underestimated as new research reveals it could provide 20% of UK electricity by 2030.
‘Nothing to be celebrated’: SEG receives lukewarm response
Details of the government’s Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) emerged earlier this week, eliciting responses that range from calling it “better than nothing” to welcoming an end to the “ongoing tragedy” of the policy gap between the feed-in tariff (FiT) and the SEG.
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Solar industry lauds ‘ambitious’ Labour proposals
Ambitious Labour Party plans to install solar on 1.75 million homes in the UK have been strongly welcomed by the country’s domestic solar industry.
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Solarcentury, M&A and the thirst for British solar expertise
With the news that Solarcentury is eyeing up a potential £250 million sale, Liam Stoker looks at the M&A momentum in the solar sector and why British developers score highly on energy company wish lists.
Solarcentury ‘exploring sale’ as firm reviews strategic options
Solarcentury, one of the UK’s longest running and most prolific solar developers, could be sold in the coming months, reports today have claimed.
IKEA shutters solar offering as result of FiT closure
Furniture giant IKEA closed its solar panel offering in the UK on 1 March citing the closure of the feed-in tariff (FiT).
Solarcentury toasts French solar auction wins
Solarcentury is to build three solar farms in France with a combined capacity of 57MW after racking up contract wins in the country's latest auction.
Solarcentury appoints Banks to lead UK subsidy-free solar team
Solarcentury has poached Chris Banks from RES to lead its subsidy-free solar development team in the UK.
Solarcentury to build 200MW in Spain as international activity continues
Solarcentury has received approval from the regional government in Andalucia to construct four PV projects in Alcala de Guadaira suburb of Seville, Spain.
Kingfisher to cut grid import at B&Q centre by 31% with battery storage
Solar consumption is set to increase at B&Q’s Swindon distribution centre under plans by owner Kingfisher to add energy storage to make better use of the electricity generated by the site’s rooftop solar array.
Solarcentury wins sought-after London solar strategy tender
Solarcentury has won the highly sought-after reverse auction to install solar in London under the mayor’s flagship solar strategy.
Rexel partners Solarcentury to cater for ‘ever-increasing’ UK BIPV demand
Rexel has chosen to stock Solarcentury’s award winning Sunstation as their “product of choice” to cater for the UK’s built-in PV market.
Government settles 2011 feed-in tariff damages claims
Five solar installers are celebrating after they reached an out of court settlement for damages following the government’s unlawful changes to the feed-in tariff in 2011.
Solarcentury buoyed by international growth as UK revenues tumble
Solarcentury’s UK revenues more than halved in 2017 amidst a backdrop of subsidy uncertainty, a loss which was somewhat mitigated by the firm’s international growth.
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Q&A: Frans van den Heuvel on five years at Solarcentury
Earlier this month Solarcentury chief Frans van den Heuvel became the fifth recipient of the Solar Power Portal Awards’ outstanding achievement accolade. We caught up with Frans to discuss his five years at the helm of one of the UK solar industry’s stalwarts and what the future might hold for the firm.
NextEnergy Capital welcomes Sir Ed Davey and Jeremy Leggett to newly-founded advisory board
Major UK solar asset owner NextEnergy Capital has established a new advisory board, naming former energy secretary Sir Ed Davey and industry stalwart Jeremy Leggett amongst its first members.
BIPV can unlock an ‘untapped’ UK solar market
Aesthetics are suppressing an ‘untapped market’ for UK solar that BIPV could open up.