Following on from their presentation at Solar Media's recent UK Solar Summit, Statkraft UK's senior solar developer Charlotte Healey takes a look at the role solar can have in ESG.
“Current energy support systems are centred around power generation. If you are a power generation company on these support mechanisms, why would you think about doing energy storage?” said Mark Sommerfield, director of policy at REA.
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“It is going to become socially unacceptable for businesses to not to have solar on their roofs in the short to medium-term,” said Shaun Beattie, sales director of BeBa Energy, at the UK Solar Summit.
“There are grounds for hope” within the introduction of a Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme for existing renewables, according to Solar Energy UK’s CEO Chris Hewett.
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In the run-up to the inaugural, in-person UK Solar Summit event, Solar Power Portal caught up with Solar Media’s head of market research Finlay Colville to discuss all things utility-scale solar.
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Ahead of the upcoming UK Solar Summer, Solar Media's head of market research Finlay Colville takes a look at the speed with which all segments of the solar market are growing in the UK at the moment.