A new fully integrated solar, battery and energy management solution is being offered by a new partnership between distributor Midsummer, Lightsource Labs and Huawei.
Construction of ScottishPower’s solar farm at the Carland Cross hybrid wind, PV and energy storage site has begun, with the first of the 10,000 panels installed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Published: 10 Jun 2021, 11:28
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The Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT) has announced plans to raise approximately £100 million through a proposed issue of further ordinary shares.
This would enable the investment manager to target continued expansion of its diversified portfolio across different jurisdictions and different technologies. It has identified a number of renewable energy assets with an aggregate value of approximately £1.3 billion that would meet the company’s investment policy and are therefore suitable for acquisition.
These assets are located in the UK, as well as in Germany, Ireland, Poland, Sweden and Finland. ORIT has undertaken preliminary due diligence in relation to this pipeline of assets, and made non-binding offers. The pipeline has a value of approximately £256 million under exclusivity to the company. Of this, 71MW are held in Octopus Managed Funds.
The Milwaukee River Watershed Clean Farm Families group was formed in 2016 and initially included the Milwaukee River watershed as the project area. The group expanded in 2021 to include all of Ozaukee County except for the Cedar Creek Watershed, which is covered by the Cedar Creek Farmers Producer-led group.
This spring Clean Farm Families hosted a no-till-planter preparation clinic. Fifty-five attendees heard speaker Joe Condon of Prospect Ag Services in Horicon.
Clean Farm Families has established a 35-acre soil-health and cover-crop demonstration site 1.5 miles south of Fredonia, adjacent to Wisconsin Highway 57. The site will enable visitors to compare plots with no-till and cover crops to plots with tillage and no cover crops. Emphasis is placed on achieving healthy soils. Information is collected on crop yield, input costs, changes in physical and chemical soil properties, erosion and runoff. The goal for the demonstration site is to show that no-till along with cover crops