Featured in Utilities make the connection – 11-2017

Tapping stored potential

UK energy policy: PV capacity growth in the U.K. has slowed significantly in 2017, and solar was entirely overlooked by the government in October’s Clean Growth Strategy announcement. However, a glimpse of hope is currently emerging via co-locating existing and new PV projects along energy storage. Are such hopes justified, and where should the U.K. solar market focus?

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Ilias Tsagas

07 Nov 2017

A 14.7 MW solar project near Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, U.K., designed, built and now maintained by Anesco.

U.K. solar, the surprise PV market of the past few years, is set to face a difficult immediate future, due to changes in the policy schemes that supported its initial growth. Specifically, the British Government scrapped the Renewables Obligation Certificate (ROC) scheme in 2015, however a large number of projects were grandfathered, meaning a portfolio …

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