Germany's cabinet on Wednesday approved plans to require most operators of new wind and solar power plants to sell their electricity independently on the open market, aiming to better integrate renewables into the country's energy system.

Changes to the planning system for renewable energy schemes in Wales have been proposed in a bid to speed up the process of getting them built. Decisions on schemes up to 50MW will no longer have to be referred to ministers for final approval.

MPs insisted local people must have their say after controversial plans for Britain's biggest-ever solar farm in Oxfordshire were submitted to the government.

The new solar farm will be located along the A1. Plans for a new solar farm in Barnack have been approved. The Abbots Wood Solar Farm Extension was put forward by Larkfleet Group to provide a new solar field along the A1.

A charity has asked Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner to overrule a decision to build a solar farm on green belt land. The University of Surrey was given permission to build on a 43-hectare site west of Blackwell Farm,