Solar Media Staff

The Department of Energy and Climate Change’s solar forcasts have been heavily scrutinised in the past, but its estimate that just 11MW of solar was installed in February looks especially wide of the mark given the rush to comply with 1.3 ROC deadlines.

Renewables’ share of electricity generation has increased to record levels according to the latest government figures which claim that solar PV accounted for around 9% of renewable generation in 2015.

Vattenfall has begun generating electricity at a prototype project which sees a new solar development share an existing grid connection with one of the company’s wind farms.

New Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) statistics published this morning have claimed that just 11MW of new solar capacity was added last month.

A community group on the Isle of Wight is looking to secure investment to purchase what would become the island’s first community energy solar farm.

German solar inverter manufacturer SMA Solar has claimed that the UK PV market has proven weaker than forecast in the first quarter of 2016.

Solarcentury says it will have connected 140MW of large-scale ground mount solar sites in the current ROC year by the end of the month in anticipation of the early closure of the Renewables Obligation (RO).

German solar EPC BayWa r.e. has added to the UK’s pre-ROC deadline activity by commissioning six new solar farms prior to tomorrow’s 1.3 ROC cut-off point.

Two Norwich-based installers have filed for insolvency, costing at least 65 jobs in the industry.

Paul McCarren, energy director at contractor Forrest, discusses why floating solar is a light at the end of the tunnel for the industry.