Tanjent Guide to Home Battery Maintenance
How to keep your battery storage system in top condition.
Syncing feeling: bringing solar closer to home
As photovoltaic technology goes mainstream, driving a market evolution in how solar is installed and financed, how is one of its stalwarts and pioneers – Qcells – adapting to this consumer-focused future? In an industry as fast-paced as renewable energy, jaw-dropping statistics are pretty common. But one recent data set from BloombergNEF (BNEF) and
UK consumer solar costs have dropped 13% in last six months
Residential solar marketplace Otovo says solar installation prices fell by 13% in a six month period to March 2023 for British households. Otovo, a Norwegian company which launched in the UK in February, expects both the cost of panels and labour to fall further, with VAT on UK residential solar systems set at 0% making
Tanjent Guide to Solar PV System Maintenance
Checking and cleaning your panels.
MPs warn action must be taken to stop ‘dark cloud of delays’ hindering solar connections
Trade association Solar Energy UK has welcomed a letter sent by MPs from the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) demanding that the Government should tackle long grid connection waiting lists for solar and battery projects. As part of the EAC’s latest enquiry, 'Enabling Sustainable Electrification of the UK Economy', committee chair Philip Dunne MP sent
Introduce affordable loans for home solar and energy storage, MPs tell Government
The UK risks missing its solar deployment targets because most homes and small businesses still find it too expensive to fit rooftop systems, MPs have warned. The cross-party Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has warned Energy Security and Net-Zero Secretary Grant Shapps that the UK is likely to miss its 2035 target of hosting 70GW
Boom in prosumers could cause ‘death spiral’ in energy markets, but it doesn’t have to
An increase in strategic, self-generating renewable energy ‘prosumers’ in the energy market has the potential to lead to ‘death spirals’ for utilities, according to research from the Tokyo University of Science. Using mathematical modelling of markets, the research found that strategic prosumers – those consumers with rooftop solar, for example, who tailor their energy consumption
UK’s first transmission-connected solar farm goes live
Cero Generation and Enso Energy have announced the energisation of what is claimed to be the first UK solar farm to connect to the higher voltage transmission network rather than a local distribution network. The 50MW solar farm will be co-location with a 49.5MW / 99MWh battery energy storage system (BESS), allowing more flexibility and efficiency
Number of UK homes installing rooftop solar panels highest in over seven years
Arrays installed by more than 50,700 households in first quarter of 2023 as people seek to reduce energy bills The number of households installing rooftop solar panels reached its highest level in more than seven years in the first months of 2023 as energy-bill payers turned to renewable energy to guard against spiralling costs.
‘My new solar panels and batteries should save me £1,600 this year’
More Britons are making their homes greener and cutting bills – here’s how the costs add up How would you like to be able to power two electric cars, cover most of the electricity for your greener home, and still save £150 a month on your electricity bill? If you don’t believe it is