Solar Media Staff

As developers rush to get a substantial pipeline of RO and FiT-eligible projects built out, EPCs and suppliers now look like being sold out well into next year. Finlay Colville looks into the opportunities on offer for new suppliers entering the market.

Mayor of London and Conservative MP Boris Johnson has criticised his own party and accused the Treasury of endangering community renewables projects by cutting tax relief measures.

Energy secretary Amber Rudd has insisted she has the confidence of the renewable energy sector despite her party’s slew of subsidy cuts.

Energy secretary Amber Rudd has dismissed the threat posed by subsidy cuts to the UK’s background of solar skills and insisted the industry has a “bright future”.

The UK has lost its ‘top energy supplier’ status according to the World Energy Council’s trilemma index for 2015.

Live coverage of this morning’s Energy and Climate Change Select Committee hearing with energy secretary Amber Rudd.

Solar has once again been voted the UK’s most favoured source of renewable energy, according to the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s opinion tracker.

Rumours have continued to circulate as to what might – and might not – feature in chancellor George Osborne’s spending review in two weeks’ time, and government departments are bracing for impact.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change has refused to comment publicly on claims energy secretary Amber Rudd misled parliament over progress towards climate change targets.

It remains unclear whether or not London maoyr Boris Johnson lobbied the government over proposed cuts to the feed-in tariff after a London Assembly deadline for him to do so expired.