Although deployment of solar has been traditionally slow in Ireland, Sean Markey argues that Lightsource’s recent leap into the Irish solar market could help kickstart a solar revolution.
Warnings of a capacity crunch this Winter have strengthened, not weakened, the importance of installing solar on commercial buildings, according to Hive Energy’s Tim Purbrick.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has caused what could be potentially the most active day in ground-mounted solar applications seen yet in the industry, directly as a result of its proposals to change the Renewable Obligation (RO) goalposts for the solar industry.
Ministers from the governments of Scotland and Wales have slammed energy and climate change secretary Amber Rudd’s proposed renewable cuts, claiming that they will “significantly damage” future community energy programmes.
Lightsource Renewable Energy, the UK’s largest solar developer by capacity, has confirmed it is to launch a considerable push into Ireland’s nascent solar PV market this year.
Plans to develop a 5MW community-owned solar farm in Balcombe, the village at the centre of a significant anti-fracking movement, have continued to gather support from local residents.
Two solar farms are being developed in Swindon after the council successfully implemented a Local Development Order (LDO) which granted permitted development for over 20 potential solar projects across the area.
