Solar Media Staff

The UK ‘must try harder’ in the remainder of 2016 following a difficult year for the renewables sector, according to the latest update from EY on the global renewables market.

Barnsley Council has been forced to suspend plans to fit solar on more than 5,000 council houses and other public buildings following cuts to the feed-in tariff.

The government must be clear on how much extra it will cost to decarbonise the energy sector if it excludes solar from any future Contracts for Difference (CfD) rounds, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has said.

In 2010 Warrington Borough Council began a social housing PV programme aimed at tackling fuel poverty. Since then the scheme has delivered 3.595MW of solar PV across 3,001 social homes and three sheltered housing schemes as well as 222kW of PV on schools, a crematorium, offices and even the local rugby stadium.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change has claimed around 83MW of rooftop solar was deployed just before the regime changed in mid-January and revised its installation figures for December 2015.

Transport for London is to experiment with the use of solar to create an ‘intelligent street’ near London’s busy Oxford Street.

With domestic funding opportunities for UK solar drying up, a number of firms are looking further afield for opportunities to develop new products and opportunities. Chris Moore from Dyesol UK explains how firms can get involved in the Horizon 2020 programme.

Greenpeace has claimed the next London mayor could increase solar deployment in the capital tenfold through a series of measures designed to make solar panels more attractive for Londoners.

Sian Berry, the Green Party’s candidate for the London mayoralty, has echoed her Labour and Conservative counterparts’ calls for Transport for London (TfL) to embrace solar as part of her election manifesto.

Southill Community Energy (SCE) has launched what it claims will be one of the last community energy share offers following changes to government support for solar energy.