Solar Media Staff

Solar Power Portal runs through the week’s people news from within UK solar, including news of job losses at Your Power and Schneider, opportunities at Cobalt and appointments at Blue Tree.

With over 30 companies exhibiting battery products or espousing the technology to the thousands of visitors in attendance, storage was always going to play a major role at last week’s SEUK | Clean Energy Live exhibition. David Pratt summarises the view from the show floor with regards the UK’s burgeoning storage market.

Your Group has said that it is “bitterly disappointed” after its Your Power division was forced to enter administration after racking up significant trade debts.

Anti-minimum import price sentiment has continued to swell this week as more than 400 companies called on the European Commission to put an end to trade duties on solar modules and cells.

The UK has tumbled outside yet another independent body’s energy ranking, this time the World Energy Council’s energy trilemma index top 10.

An early day motion calling on the government to halt proposed changes to business rates attached to rooftop solar installations has received significant, cross-party support.

Havering London Borough Council has submitted plans to build its own solar farms in the latest example of wider adoption of solar developments by local authorities and the first to take up the technology on a large scale in London.

Angelique Bacia, business development manager at Activia Solar, discusses how UK solar developers will need back-up plans as the last ROC deadline approaches.

Despite regulatory ambiguities, the general consensus from industry stakeholders at this year’s Solar Energy UK | Clean Energy Live exhibition is that Africa’s solar sector is ripe for UK entrants, posing a significant opportunity that should not be missed.

A new report has estimated that when combined with greater integration of batteries, the intermittency of solar generation could provide a net benefit to the grid, removing one of the key criticisms of wider adoption of the technology.