The next mayor of London should set the capital a target of deploying 750MW of solar by 2025, a new report by the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) has said.
Lightsource chief executive Nick Boyle talks to Solar Power Portal about the firm’s direction after the government’s subsidy reset, including its burgeoning operations and maintenance business and possible forays into the secondary market.
Scottish solar installer AES Solar has joined Panasonic’s Premium Installer programme, growing the manufacturer’s Scotland-based installer ranks to 14.
Finlay Colville, head of market intelligence at Solar Media, debates the UK market’s deployment over the last 12 months and, crucially, the first three of 2016 as EPCs begin to tot up their pre-ROC deadline activity.
NextEnergy Solar Fund has clinched a major acquisition deal which will see it spend almost £100 million on an asset portfolio with a combined capacity of 84MW.
Foresight Solar Fund has secured two major refinancing deals with a total value of £200 million and announced that it has agreed to enter five-year power purchase agreements for all but one of its operational portfolio.
g2 Energy has said it completed work on 47 large scale ground mounted solar farms in the six months leading up to the early closure of the Renewables Obligation on 31 March, totalling 356.4MW.
The Bristol Energy Co-operative (BEC) has raised the £2 million needed to fund the purchase of a solar farm in Somerset as well as develop new projects in and around the city.
There are two UK industries that, whilst once booming, are now struggling to cope with an artificially unlevel playing field. UK steel and UK solar find themselves in similar plights, but the government reaction and public perception of their problems couldn’t be further apart.
