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Developing the service involved customer consultations, including joint consultations with DNO National Grid Electricity Distribution. Image: Field.

UKPN Advanced Curtailment Report for renewable energy projects

May 13, 2024
The Advanced Curtailment Report will help by providing more data and support around curtailment through the connections process.
The portfolio comprises of solar, wind and hydro. Image: UKPN.

UK Power Networks Services acquires 70-asset solar, wind and hydro portfolio from SEEIT

May 7, 2024
UK Power Networks Services has acquired UU Solar, securing a 70-asset solar, wind and hydro portfolio from SEEIT.
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Solar-powered EV car park to save up to £150,000 in energy costs

August 18, 2023
Northumberland County Council has opened a new solar car port array set to save between £100,000 and £150,000 in energy costs.
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Cambridge Power secures planning permission for first RDP project

July 18, 2023
Renewable energy developer Cambridge Power has secured planning permission to deliver a battery storage project, the first under UK Power Networks’ (UKPNs) Regional Development Programme (RDP).
An image of a NextEnergy Capital owned solar farm in the UK. Image: NextEnergy Capital.

Compounding constraints: How grid connections and land considerations are squeezing UK solar

June 13, 2022
Solar Power Portal takes a look at how current grid connection timeframes are lengthening for UK solar, while new dynamics emerge with landowners.
The portfolio comprises of solar, wind and hydro. Image: UKPN.

‘Extraordinary’ solar and battery storage boom underway in East of England, says UKPN

June 29, 2021
A total of 34 new solar generation sites and nine battery storage sites have secured connection contracts with UK Power Networks (UKPN) between January and May in Essex, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
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FRV and Harmony begin construction of second battery storage project

March 4, 2021
Construction has got underway for Renewables developer Fotowatio Renewable Ventures’s (FRV) second battery storage project in the UK, together with partner Harmony Energy.
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Core4Grid trial integrating residential clean tech into a singular system revealed

June 11, 2020
A new trial dubbed Core4Grid, aggregating a household’s green technology – including solar and battery storage – into one system, has been unveiled.
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Lightsource BP delivers night time reactive power using solar in ‘UK first’

November 25, 2019
A solar farm has provided National Grid ESO with reactive power overnight in what is being lauded as a UK first.
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Residential solar and storage set to provide flexibility in local energy market trial

October 3, 2019
Residential solar and storage is to provide flexibility to UK Power Networks (UKPN) as part of a new local energy market (LEM) trial in Brixton.

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