Solar Media Staff

Finlay Colville, head of market research at Solar Media, discusses today’s TerraForm Power deal and takes a look at what it means in broader terms for both the UK market and SunEdison.

All the biggest UK solar news from the week commencing 2 January 2017 in a bite size format.

A cluster of eco homes utilising solar panels are being used to provide low cost public housing to tenants in Pembrokeshire as part of Wales’ first solar village.

The 365MW solar portfolio owned by SunEdison yieldco TerraForm Power has been sold to Vortex, a European renewables investment platform of private equity firm EFG Hermes.

As UK Solar’s build-phase approaches a hibernation, services such as optimisation and O&M are all the rage. This is seemingly not lost on some energy giants who are beginning to position themselves to cater for such demand. Are they set to take more than their fair share of the pie? Liam Stoker discusses.

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has called on the government to act over the proposed solar business rate increase, arguing it could act as a “huge disincentive” for SMEs to invest in the technology.

A 250kW array will supply 190MWh annually to the Yorkshire Event Centre, home to the Great Yorkshire Show.

Construction is set to begin on Swindon Borough Council’s second solar farm to be funded by a unique council solar bond, which raised over £2.4 million from more than 800 investors in just six weeks.

NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) has bolted on a further four under-construction solar farms to its growing asset portfolio.

German power company innogy SE – the renewables arm of RWE which trades in the UK under the nPower brand – has completed its purchase of Belectric Solar & Battery.