Solar powers ahead with hopes of a renewables record for solstice month

As the industry gathers in London this week, there are signs of a new dawn after the damage done by Tory subsidy cuts

Britain's solar industry delivered record levels of renewable electricity to the power grid earlier this year, but as daylight hours stretch longer around the summer solstice, it could be on track to reach another record.

Solar power generation in June is on track to come within a hair's breadth of the record set during an unusually sunny May in 2020 at about 20 gigawatt hours, according to Alastair Buckley, the professor of organic electronics at the University of Sheffield.