A huge solar plus storage project is set for the town of Stanley in County Durham, where up to 22,000 homes will have a combination of PV panels, battery storage units and LED lighting installed at no cost to residents.
Investors in The Solar Cloth Company’s (TSCC) crowd funding campaign are likely to be left empty handed despite a sale of the troubled company’s assets completing last week.
A second round of funding has been launched to allow community groups in Bristol to secure grants for new clean energy projects with the support of the city’s new Mayor.
UK-based solar investment fund NextEnergy Capital (NEC) is to invest more than €150 million in the Italian solar market after receiving backing from the UK subsidiary of insurance and investment giant Prudential.
SMA has announced the UK launch of its Sunny Boy Storage 2.5 system, a high-voltage battery-compatible inverter aimed at the private residential market.
The Solar Trade Association (STA) has elected Jonathan Selwyn and Seb Berry as its new chair and vice-chair respectively following a meeting of the body’s board of directors earlier this week.
The 50kW+ feed-in tariff (FiT) has been breached for the second time this year, sparking a new contingent degression in rates that are to be paid to new installations from 1 July onwards.
The European Union has driven renewable energy deployment and boosted the UK’s voice in the international climate debate Lord Mandelson has claimed as he made the case against Brexit yesterday.
