Solar Media Staff

Solar Cloth Company chief executive Mike Staplehurst talks to Solar Power Portal about the need for the UK’s car parks and other redundant, Brownfield plots of land to adopt solar for energy generation.

Clydebank-based solar installers, Campbell & Kennedy remain positive about solar’s prospects despite the government’s plans to cut its support under the feed-in tariff by almost 90%.

Energy efficiency firm Entu is to close its UK solar division less than a week after the government revealed plans to cut the feed-in tariff by almost 90%, citing the “increasingly difficult” environment for solar in the UK.

This award, sponsored by SunEdison, recognises one company’s commitment to ensure that the myriad benefits of solar are shared across the whole local community. The judges are looking for the project which has delivered the biggest impact on a community be it from a community group itself or the efforts of a private sector player to spread the rewards of their work to the wider locality.

The Conservative government has shown a complete lack of respect by leaking details of subsidy cuts via unofficial press briefings, something which is just further evidence of a double-standard when it comes to its attitude to energy generation, Liam Stoker writes.

Opposition to the Conservative government’s contentious feed-in tariff proposals has spread to the Houses of Parliament as shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint accused the Tories of undermining solar and onshore wind.

European service provider, Adler Solar has partnered with solar safety supplier, viamon to complete a pilot project which has seen a UK solar farm retrofitted with theft protection equipment.

Northfield UK Solar, developer of the 50MW RAF Desborough solar farm which received final planning approval earlier this week, has criticised the government over the uncertainty surrounding its Contracts for Difference scheme.

Community energy company, Big60Million has had three of its solar bond offers certified under the global Climate Bond Initiative (CBI) standard.

London-based energy and environment merchant bank Turquoise’s Low Carbon Innovation Fund (LCIF) has realised the successful exit of Colchester-based solar developer and EPC contractor, Push Energy.