Temporis Capital, Clarke Energy and Trina Storage have entered into construction contracts to deliver a 50MW/100MWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) at Boat of Garten in the Scottish Highlands, with Clarke Energy providing the EPC wrap and Trina Storage supplying the BESS system, including its Elementa solution for the project.
The National Farmers Union Scotland (NFUS) and project developer Iqony Solar Energy Solutions (Sens) cooperate to identify suitable sites for PV and battery projects.
The new storage unit is the first of its kind in the UK. It will allow more renewable electricity on the transmission grid without reducing stability. The facility is also equipped with artificial intelligence.
Rural Scotland is becoming a solar energy hot spot where increasingly, landowners are approached by developers looking for land to generate energy from the sun, says Philippa Orr from property consultancy Galbraith.
As was announced late last week, Solar Energy Scotland is said to welcome the inclusion of solar into the Scottish Government’s and Scottish Green parties’ draft policy programme.
According to Cornwall Insight's 'Renewables pipeline tracker', most regions across Great Britain showed a net increase in total capacity in the pipeline between April 2020 and March 2021.
Viridian Solar and Taylor Wimpey East Scotland have launched a jointly-developed marketing initiative at the national housebuilder's Calderwood development near Livingston.
Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) and BYD UK announced that their electric vehicle partnership has taken an order for 22 BYD ADL Enviro200EV electric single deck buses from First Bus in Glasgow/Scotland.
UK insurer Aviva realized a 1 MW solar carport, that combines solar and storage with EV charging at his Scottish headquarters in Perth.
