ScottishPower’s Hagshaw Hill site in South Lanarkshire has become the first UK wind farm to be fully recycled and reused, a wind turbine recycling milestone the company hopes will help build a domestic industry as a gigawatt of its ageing turbines comes down over the next decade.
Read MorePlug-in solar panels: Argos becomes the first major UK retailer to stock balcony solar systems, with Amazon, Currys, B&Q and Screwfix expected to follow within weeks, giving flats and rented homes a way to generate their own electricity and shave up to £110 a year off bills.
Read MoreOctopus Energy reports a 50% surge in solar panel sales as households respond to rising energy prices linked to the Middle East conflict.
Read MorePlug-in solar panels will be available in UK shops within months as the government expands clean energy plans, including mandatory solar on new homes and cheaper wind power.
Read MoreEd Miliband has approved subsidies for solar farms covering up to 40 square miles of UK farmland, alongside new onshore wind projects, sparking a backlash over costs and land use.
Read MoreEd Miliband plans a £13bn Warm Homes push to expand solar, heat pumps and batteries, aiming to cut household energy bills and create ‘zero-bill’ homes.
Read MoreSolar developers in Spain are struggling to sell projects as electricity prices fall, valuations slide and oversupply squeezes returns, raising wider questions for Europe’s renewable ambitions.
Read MoreBritain’s wind farms generated a record 22.7GW of electricity on a cold November evening, supplying over half the UK’s power mix and enough for 22 million homes, Neso reports.
Read MoreNearly two-thirds of England’s largest solar farms have been built on productive agricultural land, with a third of their area sited on the nation’s most valuable farmland, according to a damning new report from countryside charity CPRE.
Read MoreOn a crisp January morning, the slanting winter sunlight falls across a row of Victorian terraces in north London. At first glance, these brick-built homes look as they have for decades—weathered, modest, quintessentially British. But peer upward, and you’ll notice something distinctly futuristic. Where once there were only sooty chimney pots and mossy slates, sleek photovoltaic (PV) panels now glimmer.
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