Solar Media Staff

Greg Barker, the former energy secretary and now BPVA president, has criticised the evidence base used to compile the current feed-in tariff proposals and pleaded with Amber Rudd to listen to the industry’s submissions.

Ex-England rugby international Austin Healey has warned that the installation business he’s a director of would have to make more than 600 redundancies if proposed cuts to the feed-in tariff are enforced.

Solar installers looking to diversify into new technologies should the government’s 87% cuts to the feed-in tariff come into force are looking at a large number of markets, a Solar Media survey has found.

Amid a maturing solar PV market, there has never been a better time for the solar contractor to diversify. With LED technology offering one of the simplest and most effective ways to reduce energy consumption, it is an area which they can ill afford to overlook, writes Rexel’s Jerry Hamilton.

Conergy UK has appointed former Balfour Beatty head of energy Paul Weaver and Lindsey Geraghty as the company’s new joint managing directors, replacing the departing Robert Goss.

UK-based panel manufacturer UKSOL is to unveil a new British-branded solar panel at next week’s Solar Energy UK exhibition at Birmingham’s NEC.

Jerry Hamilton, business development director at Rexel, discusses next week’s Solar Power Portal Awards and how they can celebrate the UK’s standing as a global solar market.

Almost 60% of the UK’s solar installers are looking to diversify into new technologies should the government’s feed-in tariff proposals come into force next year, a survey conducted by Solar Power Portal publisher Solar Media has found.

British certification body the BBA and the Photovoltaik-Institut Berlin are to unveil a new inspection process for PV power plants at Solar Energy UK next week.

Neil Buck, managing director at Foresight’s O&M subsidiary Brighter Green Engineering, discusses the increased importance of operations and maintenance in a post-subsidy environment.