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The Latest in ‘Agrivoltaics’ Research Exciting new developments in the science of combining renewable solar PV electricity and agriculture. We have already written about the conflicts, often reported in the media and forwarded by political parties and action groups, between the need for environmentally, financially, and geopolitically sustainable renewable energy and the preservation of a […]

Renewable Energy is to Overtake Coal Sooner Than You Think The infamously toxic coal-fired electricity industry is going to take a big blow as renewable generation is set to surpass coal globally as a source of electricity. The best news, its a lot sooner than you would expect. Once upon a time the greatest economies

Solar Panel Bike Paths? The Netherlands shows how with a bit of creativity there is more places for Solar PV than you realise News is out today that two new solar bike paths have come online in the Netherlands, as reported by PV Magazine, in an initiative launched in 2018. With an impressive reported efficiency

Flat Roofs Tackled in Planning Changes Does your home have a flat roof? You can now install solar panels without planning permission. An announcement from the UK government today has outlined some fantastic new updates to planning legislation to help the UK meet its net zero targets. Residential properties with flat roofs can now install

Wind Investment Saves Man £1,200 For one Sussex man, unable to get solar panels, a community-owned wind farm has managed to save him over £1,200 in its first year We were recently asked why we chose renewables rather than more specifically solar PV. Simply put, we believe in a dynamic, multi-faceted approach to building a

Combining Farming and Solar Panels The question for a lot of farmers at the moment is whether they should continue planting crops or invest in large-scale solar. Now there might be an opportunity to do both! Increasingly there has been news coming out about the debate that British farmers are having with themselves on if

Cornish Company Leads on Tidal As an island nation it is surprising we don’t look more seriously at tidal energy, but one Cornish company is looking to change that. We don’t look at tidal energy that often at Gaia Renewables (it’s quite a hard technology to implement at someone’s home) but that doesn’t take away

Challenging China’s Renewables Dominance Tensions between China and ‘the West’ have not been great recently, but our appetite for China’s renewable technologies has never been higher. We ask if we will ever be able to compete with China’s huge renewables manufacturing might. The big news from China today is that the Chinese premier, Xi Jinping,

Solar PV Beats Military-Grade Generators Another piece of good news! Combining solar PV with battery storage now beats military-grade diesel generators. News outlets have begun reporting on another leap forward in solar generation technology. The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has conducted research that demonstrates combining solar panels with next-generation batteries

Image: TNO, EPJ Photovoltaics, Creative Commons License CC BY 4.0 Why is Vertical PV so great? Days after we wrote about some of the opportunities of vertical PV, recent research has delved into the reasons why vertical PV installations provide higher than expected yields. We have already discussed the awesome opportunities for vertical PV and