Solar Media Staff

With a target to provide 24/7 electricity across India by 2019, prime minister Narendra Modi and his energy minister Piyush Goyal have put energy on top of the agenda for the subcontinent. While this requires a vast increase in coal-fired power production, it comes with the enormous ambition of installing 100GW of solar by 2022, up from just 4GW today. Commentators recently praised India for its INDC, submitted ahead of the COP21 Climate Conference in Paris, aiming to hit 40% of its energy from alternative sources by 2030, but this is by no means an outright domestic task. Government movements make it clear that foreign investment and expertise is a critical part of the strategy.

October’s trade show provides a chance to start fine-tuning your core solar business and discover the new avenues to revenue in the year ahead.

Waxman Energy has teamed up with module manufacturer BenQ Solar to give away an iPad Mini at Solar Energy UK.

Operations and maintenance firm Solarig O&M Services will be showcasing its IT platform for asset owners and managers at Solar Energy UK 2015.

Solar manufacturer JinkoSolar will be demonstrating its Maxim-optimised smart modules at Solar Energy UK when the exhibition gets underway next week.

Yesterday’s developments at SunEdison, and the subsequent administration of the Mark Group, is undoubtedly bad news for the industry, and should weigh heavy on the conscience of those in parliament handing down the draconian policies being held as responsible.

Conservative MP for Somerton and Frome David Warburton has become the latest Tory politician to criticise his own party’s stance on renewables, slamming proposals to cut the feed-in tariff as “draconian”.

Residential and commercial solar installer the Mark Group has entered administration with the loss of up to 1,000 jobs after SunEdison sold the business back to its managers.

International solar developer SunEdison has announced it is to exit the UK market citing “uneconomic” conditions created by the government’s feed-in tariff proposals.

The recognition by regulator Ofgem of the need for an enlarged role for energy storage in the UK is a major milestone for the technology and could be an encouraging step for the integration of higher levels of solar and other renewables, trade associations have said.