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Labour slammed for ‘dictator’ approach as farmland is lost to UK’s biggest solar project

Labour slammed for ‘dictator’ approach as farmland is lost to UK’s biggest solar project

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Nick Hill could be handed a compulsory purchase order for cables to be put under his land (Image: Nick Hill) The government has been labelled a “dictatorship” by furious campaigners after Energy Secretary Ed Miliband pushed through the UK’s biggest-ever solar farm on agricultural land. The Tillbridge Solar Project was approved by Labour for a

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How political and economic disruption is causing a rethink in solar and storage financing

How political and economic disruption is causing a rethink in solar and storage financing

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Certainly, much of this stems from the ongoing uncertainty, and increasing hostility, of federal policies aligned against the clean energy transition, but according to Ronak Maheshwari, director of US renewable energy investment bank CRC-IB, there has also been a struggle for renewable power projects to secure the equity necessary to get off the ground. “The

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Ireland expands scheme offering free solar systems to the medically vulnerable

Ireland expands scheme offering free solar systems to the medically vulnerable

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The Solar PV Scheme for Medically Vulnerable Customers covers all homeowners dependent on electrically powered medical equipment regardless of their energy supplier. It includes a 2 kW solar PV system and around 470 homes have benefited to date… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/17/ireland-expands-scheme-offering-free-solar-systems-to-the-medically-vulnerable/

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Scatec to deploy 60MW/10MWh pre-assembled solar and storage in West Africa

Scatec to deploy 60MW/10MWh pre-assembled solar and storage in West Africa

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Latest Features , Interviews , Long Reads The company has entered into lease agreements with the power utilities in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Image: Scatec. Norwegian renewable energy firm Scatec has signed lease agreements for 64MW of solar PV and 10MWh of energy storage capacity in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Through its subsidiary Release by

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Over 20 US states sue EPA over ‘illegal’ US$7 billion Solar For All cancellation

Over 20 US states sue EPA over ‘illegal’ US$7 billion Solar For All cancellation

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Latest Features , Interviews , Long Reads California attorney general Rob Bonta said the state was owed almost US$250 million by the EPA. Image: Unsplash. A group of over 20 US states are suing the Trump administration for the cancellation of the US$7 billion Solar For All Scheme. Attorneys general from 20 states and representatives

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More than 20 states sue EPA over canceled grants for solar power

More than 20 states sue EPA over canceled grants for solar power

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More than 20 states sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, challenging the agency’s decision to cancel a $7 billion program that aimed to make solar power accessible to low-income households. The program, called “Solar For All,” was established in 2022 under the Inflation Reduction Act and had appropriated grants to deploy rooftop and community

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Watch Europe’s upcoming PLATO exoplanet hunter spread its ‘wings’ (video)

Watch Europe’s upcoming PLATO exoplanet hunter spread its ‘wings’ (video)

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Europe’s next planet-hunting spacecraft just spread its “wings” in preparation for launch. PLATO ‘s twin solar panels, which will power the Planetary Transits and Oscillations of Stars spacecraft’s search for Earth-like exoplanets , spread out successfully during engineering tests last month in a European Space Agency (ESA) clean lab. That’s a big deal, as “PLATO

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UK’s largest solar project approved, joins 2.1 GW cluster

UK’s largest solar project approved, joins 2.1 GW cluster

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Development consent granted for 1,400 hectare Tillbridge Solar Project. The 500 MW solar plant is the 17th energy project to secure final approval through the UK government’s nationally significant infrastructure project (NSIP) pipeline since July 2024 and the fourth in the local area… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/16/uks-largest-solar-project-approved-joins-2-1-gw-cluster/

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