New research conducted by Imperial College London (ICL) has revealed that consumers in the UK will miss out on cheaper electricity because of government cuts to clean energy subsidies.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change is standing by its forecast for solar capacity out to 2020/21, showing minimal growth for the sector over the next five years.
Scotland’s energy minister Fergus Ewing has accused the UK government of complacency a week after National Grid was forced to issue an urgent request for more electricity.
The London Assembly has given Mayor of London Boris Johnson a deadline of today in which to press energy secretary Amber Rudd for a meeting over proposed cuts to the feed-in tariff.
A group of 100 of the UK’s leading community energy groups has pleaded with chancellor George Osborne to reverse community energy tax relief cuts as Balcombe has been forced to shelve its own solar farm plans.
It’s a deal that’s supposed to have been in the works for more than a year, but a solar trade deal between the UK and Turkey has yet to transform Barnsley into one of Europe’s foremost PV hubs. Liam Stoker looks into the latest details.
The Microgeneration Certification Scheme has announced that new fire prevention standards outlined in issue two of MCS 012 are to come into force from May 2016.
UK installer eco NRG Solutions has partnered with Germany’s New Energy for the World to complete a 7MW solar farm in Somerset and start work on a 100MW portfolio across the UK.
Germany’s market-leading residential energy storage system maker Sonnenbatterie is to enter the UK residential energy storage market with its lithium-ion storage system Sonnenbatterie eco.
