Solar Media Staff

Solar installer EvoEnergy has landed a contract to fit a 3.8MW rooftop PV installation, a project which it claims will be one of the five largest rooftop arrays in the country.

While the majority of the government’s recent changes to renewable energy subsidies will impact commercial and utility-scale installations the domestic market is still likely to feel the pinch.

UK investment giant Legal & General has reiterated its commitment to investing in the UK solar and renewables sectors despite government plans to curtail subsidy support.

According to the latest release of Solar Media’s UK Ground-Mount Report 3 – Opportunity Pipeline report, the UK’s pipeline of large-scale solar farms (>250kW) has grown now to 3.3GW. This is due mainly to an increase in applications received by LPAs on 22 July, and an uptick in rejected (or called-in) sites to appeals.

Associated British Ports’ (ABP) Port of Barry has energised a 4.5MW solar farm as part of an effort to roll out renewable energy projects across all of its South Wales-based ports.

Solar Power Portal is delighted to unveil the shortlisted entries for the rooftop less than 250kW category at this year’s Solar Power Portal awards.

Doncaster City Council is aiming to install solar PV on around 6,000 council homes in order to tackle rising fuel poverty in the area, but it is not yet known whether a potential cut to the feed-in tariff would place the project in jeopardy.

Asset management firm Aquila Capital has added a second solar array to its portfolio after acquiring an unnamed 9.8MWp installation near Sheffield.

Parker Dann Town Planning Consultancy’s Debbie Marriage discusses how the joint DECC/DCLG statement on fast-tracking proposals will put even more pressure on not just the energy industry, but on local planning authorities, housing developers and other sectors too.

The ballot papers are out, canvassing has entered overdrive and yet still energy and the environment appear to be little more than afterthoughts for the four candidates for the Labour Party leadership. What does Labour’s failure to mount a challenge to the Tory’s green energy culls say about the party?