Solar Media Staff

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?

The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has refuted claims it is guilty of double standards after announcing new measures to fast-track shale gas extraction planning applications.

Northern Ireland’s Fold Housing Association has committed more than £1 million to install solar PV panels on around 100 of its homes to help combat fuel poverty.

UK distributor Navitron has inked a deal with Italian solar PV optimiser firm BMSolar in order to distribute the company’s BlackMagic power optimiser in the UK.

Solar Power Portal talks to Carter Jonas’ Andrew Watkin on how developers need to focus on the financial benefits of a solar installation when pitching to businesses following the consultancy’s 2015 Energy Index which labeled a 50kW solar rooftop to be the most attractive technology for investment.

The UK solar industry has been on a dramatic journey since the introduction of the feed-in tariff. Rexel’s Jerry Hamilton argues that the industry will have to maintain its frenetic pace in order to raise the quality of solar installs in the future.

With potential boundary lines drawn around planning application submissions on 22 July 2015 and buildout under ROs by 31 March 2016, what DECC is effectively proposing is a cap on large-scale solar farm deployment under ROCs, with the final capacity installed based upon what the industry can manage to do now over the next seven and a half months.

Solar Power Portal can reveal the shortlisted industry for this year’s coveted installer of the year award.

The Department for Energy and Climate Change probably expected its proposed subsidy cuts to be roundly criticised by the renewables industry, but it just might be taken aback by the response from opposition ministers.