Solar Media Staff

The UK is at risk of missing out on the economic opportunities presented the global shift towards low carbon technologies, according to new analysis by six of the UK’s development and environment organisations.

Renewables installer EcoLogicLiving has become the latest company in the solar supply chain to file for administration, resulting in the loss of a number of jobs.

Solar Media, the publishers of Solar Business Focus UK magazine and Solar Power Portal, are delighted to introduce Inside Clean Energy, the new magazine designed to provide insight and intelligence to the UK’s clean energy supply chain.

Solar Power Portal runs through this week’s people news from within UK solar, including hires at DP Energy and Bluesky, and news of redundancies at The Solar Cloth Company

Nominations for this year’s Solar Power Portal Awards, sponsored by Trina Solar, are currently open. Returning for its fourth consecutive year, the Solar Power Portal Awards will take place on 5 October during the Clean Energy Live exhibition at Birmingham’s NEC.

The UK solar industry has reached its latest milestone after generating more energy in a full month than coal for the first time, according to analysis by Carbon Brief.

Conservative think-tank Bright Blue has said that renewables must be the government’s ‘Plan B’ in the event that the controversial Hinkley C nuclear power project falls through.

The UK solar market must “unlock” deployment on commercial buildings if the technology is to continue its cost-reduction path to a subsidy-free future, the Renewable Energy Association (REA) has claimed.

Nominations for this year’s Solar Power Portal Awards, sponsored by Trina Solar, are currently open. Returning for its fourth consecutive year, the Solar Power Portal Awards will take place on 5 October during the Clean Energy Live exhibition at Birmingham’s NEC.

Clean energy utility and renewables developer Good Energy has today launched a customer-focused share offer to help power its new strategy.