Solar Media Staff

Solar will be excluded from the next Contract for Difference allocation round, which energy secretary Amber Rudd this morning confirmed is to take place in 2016.

Billed in the national press as her most important speech in the role to date, Amber Rudd took to the stage at London’s Institution of Civil Engineers this morning promising a radical overhaul of the UK’s energy market.

A leading conservative voice for climate change has claimed the Treasury is “at war” with the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC), leaving Britain without a clear energy policy.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change has dramatically upgraded its solar deployment forecast for 2020 to 12GW.

UK-facing installer Solarplicity has said its expansion is to continue after acquiring MAP Environmental’s solar division.

All the reaction today’s announcement that the UK will close all operational coal plants by 2025 and pursue gas and new nuclear, with renewables set to take a back seat.

Energy secretary Amber Rudd will this morning outline a new energy strategy for the UK with gas and new nuclear power central elements.

Germany-based EPC firm Goldbeck Solar has started construction of a 50MW solar farm near Melksham in Wiltshire.

John Laing Environmental Assets group has added to its burgeoning rooftop portfolio with the acquisition of an operational portfolio for almost £10 million.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is to accept cut to an annual budget of around 21% ahead of next week’s spending review, media reports have claimed.