Tesco is planning a major rollout of solar on the roofs of its stores in the UK, Solar Power Portal can reveal. Alongside its in-house market research team, SPP has identified at least five planning applications to install solar on the roofs of Tesco superstores in Nottingham, Lewisham, Sheerness, Martlesham and Yeovil, indicating that the rollout is countrywide and not consigned to any specific geography. No specific details such as system size or component suppliers have yet been identified, but Tesco is partnering with developer Push Energy and financier Macquarie for the programme. With Push and Macquarie both linked to the projects, Tesco’s solar initiative bears stark similarities to Amazon’s solar deployment initiative in the UK, which SPP revealed late last year. In 2017 Tesco committed to deriving 100% of its power for its UK operations from renewable sources by the end of that year, and in December penned a deal with Volskwagen and Pod Point to install 2,400 electric vehicle charge points at its supermarkets over the next three years.
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A new start-up energy supplier is aiming to become the ‘Uber of electricity’ by turning homes into personal power stations. Resilience Energy, which has been backed by the Virgin Startup investment programme, intends to provide customers the hardware, software and contracts necessary to produce, store and sell renewables, powered by a consumer-facing app which monitors system performance. The supplier said the system would essentially turn homes into “personal power stations” through the adoption of a “future-proofed” system incorporating technologies such as solar PV, heat pumps, EV chargers and electric panel heaters.
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